Versify Again Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

To versify again
You made me
To versify again
in your beauty.
Ah! I will not
Tell what you are
But will
My emotions describe
and give to you
as far as will be far.
A vestry the site
a grave the site
a cemetery
and in all this
central be poesy.
Deter me not
From my task noble
But pray for me
That my Muse in favor be
'My son, my son, '
said she, ' you
must make haste
For you must versify
and I want hear
You sing noble
And sing sweet.'
So said; thus said
My head I bent
In sweet consent
And to versify bent
though erect stood I
o versify again
You made me
To versify again
in your beauty.
Ah! I will not
Tell what you are
But will
My emotions describe
and give to you
as far as will be far.
of many things
that I had seen
of many things
that I had heard
thought I.
Of many thing
of many things
in sudden reel
my brain advanced
and with the images
thought upon thought
advanced.
Yellow the night
and red the day
the rose be green
the trees be blue
the waters brown
the spume twilight
the waves twilight before
in dusk
became a sodden sheen
and dusk the red
was dusk the violet.
o versify again
You made me
To versify again
in your beauty.
Ah! I will not
Tell what you are
But will
My emotions describe
and give to you
as far as will be far.
hear, my Monsignor,
hear!
See! the waters from
the heavens immense
softly, gently descend
as in tabernacle
hanging upon our heads
pray we, pray we
for our safety.
the colors change
yellow to blue
red to yellow too
then
white to red
it changes too.
with this play
acted of colors
that change
with every scene and more
the brain rests,
the brain yet
on fire it gets
the heart in lust
the verse prepares
the Poet Seer erects
and his tongue sings
the noble words
the noble lines
Smiles the Muse from high
and wills more verses nigh.
o versify again
You made me
To versify again
in your beauty.
Ah! I will not
Tell what you are
But will
My emotions describe
and give to you
as far as will be far.
the verses skip
the verses leap
as rock down to rock
the water leaps
the water peeps
from clefts and high
upon the rock
the water itself sings
a water serenade.
the scenes change
the reel revolves
and
to revolve be to evolve
so the revolution
makes each time
a quiet evolution:
the time be come
it always be
For
Revolution to Evolution
To versify again
You made me
To versify again
in your beauty.
Ah! I will not
Tell what you are
But will
My emotions describe
and give to you
as far as will be far.
the Wrath descends
the wrath on high
a hand! Long hand!
and in the sea
tempestuous shriek
the eerie water wraiths!
Sudden sharks bite
And thunder claps in sky!
The sea-bottom restless
Plies from sea-bed to sea-bed
Currents in the Oceans wide!
Blue the sun now turned
And yellow the high skies
And heavens immense
Red the sea
Brown the coast
And green the winds
On high!
Though dark the back ground be
Yet there sun on high
Ah! for the glories of a magic winter night
When the stars burn and clouds be out of sight!
So the brain turns
So the brain burns.
From though to thought
It skips and skips
In direction straight and linear!
To versify again
You made me
To versify again
in your beauty.
Ah! I will not
Tell what you are
But will
My emotions describe
and give to you
as far as will be far.
Give me
Give me the sun to-night
Dreaming be easy
Calculations out of sight
And grave furrowed foreheads
This magic night!
O for a pitcher of magic
Wine!
That yields maturing a stern
Universe divine
Where of things colors
Change each time
Where Revolution to Evolution
Turns.
Where Beauty everywhere espy
And in the cradle of the heavens lie!