leslie fish – the palace lyrics
when i was a king and a mason — a master proven and sk!lled —
i cleared me ground for a palace such as a king should build
i decreed and dug down to my levels. presently, under the silt
i came on the wreck of a palace such as a king had built
there was no worth in the fashion — there was no wit in the plan —
hither and thither, aimless, the ruined footings ran —
masonry, brute, and mishandled, but carven on every stone:
“after me cometh a builder. tell him, i too have known.”
swift to my use in my trenches, where my well-planned ground-works grew
i tumbled his quoins and his ashlars, and cut and reset them anew
lime i milled out of his marbles; burned it, and slacked it, and spread;
taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead
yet i despised not nor gloried; for yet, as we wrenched them apart
i read in the razed foundations the heart of that builder’s heart
as he had risen and pleaded, so did i understand
the form of the dream he had followed in the face of the thing he had planned
when i was a king and a mason — in the open noon of my pride
they sent me a word from the darkness. they whispered and called me aside
they said — “the end is forbidden.” they said — “thy use is fulfilled
“thy palace shall stand as that other’s — the spoil of a king who shall build.”
i recalled all my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves, and my sheers
all i had wrought i abandoned to the faith of the faithless years
but i cut upon every timber — and i carved into every stone:
“after me cometh a builder. tell him, i too have known!”
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