Chill Draft

Evil from north pole 

Issues from antiquity 

Colder without love 

Sun, farther off, yet watches 

Level-set on horizons 

Mankind falls, earth lists 

Year divides, divides again 

Fourfold the seasons 

Star-crossed the constellations 

Keeping gates which square heaven 

Sun, moon, stars and night 

Immutable in their spheres 

Wheeling round and round 

Strange wanderings for the earth 

And her peripatetics 

Eagle and stinger 

Angel drips water through air 

Raking bull, fire mane 

Golden chain and silver cords 

And bridge arched over chaos 

Motion moves moment 

Spinning wave-like over time 

All comes round again 

Different places though, so old 

New turns old, and pole turns pole 

The story begins 

The tale always beginning 

End it though you try 

Draw serpentine, bite your tail 

And compass round the whole point