spinning

Because man is no more;

When the dead world slowly spinning

Drifts and falls through the void--

I, too, have seen the quavering Fate destroy

Your destiny’s bright spinning--the dull shears

Meeting not neatly, chewing at the thread,--

Like the mischief all the time,

Till it took me rocking, spinning,

In a dizzy, sunny circle,

_Ursula, (spinning)._ She is a strange and wayward child,

That Elsie of ours. She looks so old,

For mother she hateth all fellows,

And spinning's my father's desire,

While the old cat growls bass with the bellows

Of all its chafing torrents after thaw,

Urged; and to feed whose movement, spinning sand,

The feeble sons of pleasure set their hand;

Ah, Exiles wandering over many seas,

Spinning at all times Eire's good to-morrow!

Ah, worldwide Nation, always growing Sorrow!

It is this darkness reveals that which darkness alone

loosens and sets spinning on waxen wings--

not the touch of a finger-tip, not the motion