‘High on the cold mountain road’

High on the cold mountain road.

The path a little paler than the darkness

I hunt a poem through the night

Far far below the vast run of the curving sea

And on my right hand the tight-drawn mountains touch

remote Orion and the Pleiades.

But now I walk on thyme: thyme.

Thyme and the scent of grass

My thoughts drop from me like a shroud:

My heart is importuned by joy.