She lives entwined in reveries
Encased, enclosed, withdrawn within,
And sweet are phantom memories
Of life untouched by earthly din.
Upon the edges of her eyes
The weary world breaks sightlessly,
And when sharp time wrings from her sighs,
She tacks the winds of vision's sea.
Set once upon this mindful main
Far from the stunted shores of earth,
Lovely Luna will never chain
Again her soul to hollow dearth.
Far distant isles come into view
Now upon this course she's taken,
And should some offer pleasures few
Still scores may dreams awaken.
This kithless sea on which she's shipped
Is wholly in her heart retained,
And for the venture she has stripped
Those common sights by all proclaimed.