A World Apart

The Lady Moon is my lover,

My friends are the oceans four,

The heavens have roofed me over,

And the dawn is my golden door

I would liefer follow the condor

Or the seagull, soaring from ken,

Than bury my godhead yonder

In the dust of the whirl of men.

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