Last night I watched my brothers play
The reckless and the gentle one
In a field two yards away
For half a century they were gone
Beyond the other side of care
Even in a dream how could I dare
Interrogate the happiness
So widely spent yet never less
Still they raced about the green
Yet where I was they once had been
I thought how could I be so dull
Twenty thousand days ago
Not to see the beauty there
I asked them were they really so
As you are the other day
Then we played for victory
Not to make each other glad
Darkness covered every head
A frown it twists upon your face
And through the mask I could not see the grace
Even in a dream how could I dare
Interrogate the happiness
So widely spent yet never less
Just like the revolving suns
So bright I could not see their eyes or
Look into their paradise
Where I was they once had been
I have observed with foolish awe
The dateless middays of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone
And in a vision I have seen
My brothers playing on the green
