FOUNTAINS

By James Elroy Flecker

Soft is the collied night, and cool

The wind about the garden pool.

Here will I dip my burning hand

And move an inch of drowsy sand,

And pray the dark reflected skies

To fasten with their seal mine eyes.

A million million leagues away

Among the stars the goldfish play,

And high above the shadowed stars

Wave and float the nenuphars.