A Poet or a Dreamer

O’ writer, are you a poet or a dreamer?

Do you anger Christ and His mother Maria?

Are you one wishing to change the eon’s laws?

Are you the one who wishes to build in the cold ironforge?

Or, are you one who wishes to see the laws

All around you; nay, not to break them and bend them to thy false wills

But see them in their truth, and to praise them

And to make them understood, in their invisible strings?

Do you, Poet, follow the course of law

To draw forth Maria’s nard?

Or do you, Dreamer, follow the course of what ought

To draw forth imagination’s gall?

The poet brings forth from the strings of faith

To find them upon his harp.

The dreamer, he tries to climb upon the air.