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I am a certain god	A
Who slipped down from a remote height	B
To a place of pools and stars	C
And I sat invisible	D
Amid a clump of trees	E
To watch the madmen	F
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There were cries and groans about me	G
And shouts of laughter and curses	H
Figures passed by with self absorbed contempt	I
Wrinkling in bitter smiles about their lips	J
Others hurried on with set eyes	K
Pursuing something	L
Then I said this is the place for mad Frederick	M
Mad Frederick will be here	N
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But everywhere I could see	G
Figures sitting or standing	L
By little pools	O
Some seemed grown into the soil	P
And were helpless	Q
And of these some were asleep	R
Others laughed the laughter	S
That comes from dying men	T
Trying to face Death	U
And others said I should be content	V
And others said I will fly	W
Whereupon sepulchral voices muttered	X
As of creatures sitting or hanging head down	Y
From limbs of the trees	E
We will not let you	Z
And others looked in their pools	O
And clasped hands and said Gone all gone	A2
By other pools there were dead bodies	E
Some of youth some of age	B2
They had given up the fight	B
They had drunk poisoned water	S
They had searched	C2
Until they fell	D2
All had gone mad	E2
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Then I a certain god	A
Curious to know	F2
What it is in pools and stars	C
That drives men and women	F
Over the earth in this quest	G2
Waited for mad Frederick	M
And then I heard his step	H2
	-
I knew that long ago	F2
He sat by one of these pools	O
Enraptured of a star's image	I2
And that hands for his own good	J2
As they said	K2
Dumped clay into the pool	L2
And blotted his star	M2
And I knew that after that	N2
He had said They will never spy again	T
Upon my ecstasy	G
They will never see me watching one star	M2
I will fly by rivers	O2
And by little brooks	P2
And by the edge of lakes	Q2
And by little bends of water	S
Where no wind blows	R2
And glance at stars as I pass	S2
They will never spy again	T
Upon my ecstasy	G
	-
And I knew that mad Frederick	M
In this flight	B
Through years of restless and madness	Q
Was caught by the image of a star	M2
In a mere beyond a meadow	F2
Down from a hill under a forest	T2
And had said	K2
No one sees	E
Here I can find life	U2
Through vision of eternal things	V2
But they had followed him	W2
They stood on the brow of the hill	X2
And when they saw him gazing in the water	S
They rolled a great stone down the hill	X2
And shattered the star's image	I2
Then mad Frederick fled with laughter	S
It echoed through the wood	J2
And he said I will look for moons	Y2
I will punish them who disturb me	G
By worshiping moons	Y2
But when he sought moons	Y2
They left him alone	Z2
And he did not want the moons	Y2
And he was alone and sick from the moons	Y2
And covered as with a white blankness	Y2
Which was the worst madness of all	A3
	-
And I a certain god	A
Waiting for mad Frederick	M
To enter this place of pools and stars	Y2
Saw him at last	B3
With a sigh he looked about upon his fellows	Y2
Sitting or standing by their pools	Y2
And some of the pools were covered with scum	C3
And some were glazed as of filth	D3
And some were grown with weeds	Y2
And some were congealed as of the north wind	E3
And a few were yet pure	F3
And held the star's image	I2
And by these some sat and were glad	E2
Others had lost the vision	F
The star was there but its meaning vanished	G3
And mad Frederick going here and there	H3
With no purpose	Y2
Only curious and interested	I3
As I was a certain god	A
Came by a certain pool	L2
And saw a star	M2
	-
He shivered	X
He clasped his hands	Y2
He sank to his knees	Y2
He touched his lips to the water	S
	-
Then voices from the limbs of the trees muttered	X
There he is again	T
He must be driven away	J3
The pool is not his	Y2
He does not belong here	N
So as when bats fly in a cave	K3
They swooped from their hidings in the trees	Y2
And dashed themselves in the pool	L2
Then I saw what these flying things were	S
But no matter	S
They were illusions evil and envious	Y2
And dull	D
But with power to destroy	L3
And mad Frederick turned away from the pool	L2
And covered his eyes with his arms	Y2
Then a certain god	A
Of less power than mine	M3
Came and sat beside me and said	K2
Why do you allow this to be	G
They are all seeking	L
Why do you not let them find their heart's delight	B
Why do you allow this to be	G
But I did not answer	S
The lesser god did not know	F2
That I have no power	S
That only the God has the power	S
And that this must be	G
In spite of all lesser gods	Y2
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And I saw mad Frederick	M
Arise and ascend to the top of a high hill	X2
And I saw him find the star	M2
Whose image he had seen in the pool	L2
Then he knelt and prayed	N3
Give me to understand O Star	M2
Your inner self your eternal spirit	O3
That I may have you and not images of you	Z
So that I may know what has driven me through the world	P3
And may cure my soul	Q3
For I know you are Eternal Love	R3
And I can never escape you	Z
And if I cannot escape you	Z
Then I must serve you	Z
And if I must serve you	Z
It must be to good and not ill	X2
You have brought me from the forest of pools	Y2
And the images of stars	Y2
Here to the hill's top	S3
Where now do I go	F2
And what shall I do	Z

Edgar Lee Masters

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