Perception

While I have vision, while the glowing-bodied,     Drunken with light, untroubled clouds, with all this cold sphered sky,     Are flushed above trees where the dew falls secretly,     Where no man goes, where beasts move silently,     As gently as light feathered winds that fall     Chill among hollows filled with sighing grass;     While I have vision, while my mind is borne     A finger's length above reality,     Like that small plaining bird that drifts and drops     Among these soft lapped hollows;     Robed gods, whose passing fills calm nights with sudden wind,     Whose spears still bar our twilight, bend and fill     Wind-shaken, troubled spaces with some peace,     With clear untroubled beauty;     That I may rise not chill and shrilling through perpetual day,     Remote, amazd, larklike, but may hold     The hours as firm, warm fruit,     This finger's length above reality.