II

These were his fields Elysian:

With mystic eyes he saw

The sowers planting vision,

The reapers gleaning awe.

Serfs to a sordid duty,

He saw them with his heart,

Priests of the Ultimate Beauty,

Feeding the flame of art.

The weird, untempled Makers

Pulsed in the things he saw;

The wheat through its virile acres

Billowed the Song of Law.

The epic roll of the furrow

Flung from the writing plow,

The dactyl phrase of the green-rowed maize

Measured the music of Now.

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