HALF ASLEEP ON the shore you dreaded the voice of Tempest when he thundered in your ears his 'No'. You had said to each other that the shore had its plenty, the house had its comfort, when suddenly grinding his flashing teeth Tempest growled 'No'. But I have made Tempest my comrade and left my shore, my ship tosses on the sea. I have trusted the Terrible, have filled my sails with his breath and my heart with his assurance that the shore is there. He cries to me, 'You are vagrant even as I am myself, Victory to you.' Things are shattered to pieces scattered by the wind, the timid murmur in despair, 'The end of time has come.' Tempest cries, 'Only that remains which is utterly given away.' With trust in him I march forward, I look not back while the hoarded heap is swept away by flood. My traveller's reed is tuned with the tune of his loud laughter, it sings: Away with lures of desire, with bonds that are fixed, with the achievement that is past and hope that is idle. Learn for your drum the dance-time of the reckless waves beating against rocks. Away with greed and fear, with tyranny's banner borne by slaves. Come Divine Destruction, drive us away from the house, from safety's easy path. Come with the flutter of your wings of death, spread upon the wind your cry 'No'. No rest, no languor, No load of feebleness weighing down the head. Knock and break open the miser's door. Scatter away the musty gloom of storage, banish the self-distrust that seeks a hole wherein to hide, and let your trumpet proclaim in the wind your terrible cry 'No'.
FEEL THY release in the air, O bird, let not thy wings be timid. Yield not to the lure of the nest, to the enchantment of the night. Dost thou not feel the hidden hope that hums in thy dream when thou sleepest and in the expectant dark of the dawn the silent promise that reveals itself as it rends the veil from the face of the bud.
