Classic Poem

Through the pale forest of tall bracken-stalks
Whose interwoven fronds, a jade-green sky,
Above me glimmer infinitely high,
Towards my giant hand a beetle walks
In glistening emerald mail; and as I lie
Watching his progress through huge grassy blades
And over pebble boulders, my own world fades
And shrinks to the vision of a beetle's eye.
Within that forest world of twilit green,
Ambushed with unknown perils, one endless day
I travel down the beetle-trail, between
Huge glossy boles, through green infinity ...
Till flashes a glimpse of blue sea through the bracken asway,
And my world is again a tumult of windy sea.