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Being but men, we walked into the trees / Afraid, letting our syllables be soft / For fear of waking the rooks, / For fear of coming
Noiselessly into a world of wings and cries.
If we were children we might climb, / Catch the rooks sleeping, and break no twig, / And, after the soft ascent, / Thrust out our heads above the branches
To wonder at the unfailing stars.
Out of confusion, as the way is, / And the wonder that man knows, / Out of the chaos would come bliss.
That, then, is loveliness, we said,
Children in wonder watching the stars, / Is the aim and the end.
Being but men, we walked into the trees.