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A Man Dreams That He Is The Creator

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I sat in heaven like the sun      Above a storm when winter was:      I took the snowflakes one by one     And turned their fragile shapes to glass:     I washed the rivers blue with rain     And made the meadows green again.     I took the birds and touched their springs,      Until they sang unearthly joys:     They flew about on golden wings      And glittered like an angel's toys:     I filled the fields with flowers' eyes,     As white as stars in Paradise.     And then I looked on man and knew      Him still intent on death - still proud;     Whereat into a rage I flew      And turned my body to a cloud:     In the dark shower of my soul     The star of earth was swallowed whole.

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