Epidocyle

Farewell Earth The way the coconut retains wine within its brown shell So does God retain man within the mighty walls of this Earth As in the beginning, man sprouted from the seventh creation spell And in the end, from the same spell shall come his withered dearth Man sweats from the marrows of dusk till the stirs of dawn In vain and drained brawn, tilling Earth’s gigantic fecund lawn He wanders the perimeters of this wailing world of mercilessness Around the lofty loops of deceits springing from the music of sane madness Crowded spirits foster fear’s frail feet at the Gate of Death That shields man’s soul departing happily in birth Of all the skyward magnificent mansions ever built by man The greatest of them all is building his ideal being in this cosmic clan Man and his bones melt to dust at the whirling wink of beautiful death And shuts Life’s Door as his soul solemnly says ‘‘Farewell Earth’’