Three days ago I was visited by a Wanderer in the desert, who being asked his name replied, "What is spoken is not what is known, and what is known is not the question that you would know of me.
Nevertheless if you answer me what I would not ask of you then I will tell you who I am."S
So I asked him how he might best be known when all he is as nothing.
"Now I will tell you who I am, and after that, we will sit together and stare into the sky."
So I listened, and hearing nothing, sat down to wait.
The watch was long, and quiet...
But I am patient.
And I can wait...
Experimentis Multiplicitus
Part the First: The Globe
“Post equitem sedet atra Cura”
Upon the table where I lay the object of desire
I came upon an ancient thing, a thing I could admire
A telescope of ages past, a compass lost to read
An experiment alone by which forsaken I accede
A glass that mirrored back my soul
A branching from the bole,
A secret whispered back from God
That guile could not enroll,
Upon the table where I lay the object of desire
I came upon an arcane thing, a thing I could acquire
A ruler steep, an astrolabe
For shooting at the sun
A promise long that I did crave
No matter when begun
And machinations, they did turn
Where assemblies did adjourn
Along the casement of facade
For by this did I learn,
No man has ever grown so tall
He ever stooped the sky,
Then when he topples, what a fall
That cracks the globe nearby
Upon the table where I lay the object of desire
I came upon an obscure thing, a thing which did conspire
For reaching up upon the mast, as tall as masts will grow
I found what I was searching for, then lost it down below,
The moral of this versive tale, this song of last repent
Is that desire never sleeps, and never does relent
So if you come upon that thing which lingers in your heart
Be very careful what you take before you do depart…
For gaining we have caught it all, and grasping we will hold
Seceding we cannot let off, our end is thus foretold.
© JG 2007
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