English poem
The Vigil
by Benjamin De Casseres (1873–1945)
Here in the naked primal night, Here where the VEILED sits graven in silence in ITS garden of weeds, Here where the NOTHING drowses and mutters of a SOMETHING to come; Here where the fangs of my soul have fastened at last; Here where through wild-steaming streams of passion and great shroud-like dawns I have dragged my undying Desire-- Here, too, will I vigil with THEE through the glutted eternities-- Thou imbecile artisan, thou bungler, evader, rhetor and faun!