The Planet

From the center of the sea of Tranquility--

A dry sea and a grainy--

See shining on the air

Of that stretched night, a planet

See it as serene and bright, very bright,

A far fair neighbor;

Conceive what might be there 

After the furious spaces

Greenfields, green fields

Oceans of grasses breakers of daisies;

Shadows on those fields,

Vast and traveling,

The clouds' shadows.

Ans something smaller;

In the green grass, lovers, in each other's 

Arms, still, in the green.

The clouds will water the fields

The stream runs shining 

To the sea's motion; the sea shining

As the clouds travel and shine

So shine the daises, as 

The light in the seas

Of the lovers' eyes. The innocent planet 

Far and simple, simply because far:

With lovers, and fields for flowers,

And a blue sky carrying clouds;

And water, water: the innocent planet, 

Shining and shining.