The Well Dressed Man With A Beard

• After the final no there comes a yes
• And on that yes the future world depends.
• No was the night. Yes is this present sun.
• If the rejected things, the things denied,
• Slid over the western cataract, yet one,
• One only, one thing that was firm, even
• No greater than a cricket's horn, no more
• Than a thought to be rehearsed all day, a speech
• Of the self that must sustain itself on speech,
• One thing remaining, infallible, would be
• Enough. Ah! douce campagna of that thing!
• Ah! douce campagna, honey in the heart,
• Green in the body, out of a petty phrase,
• Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed:
• The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps,
• The aureole above the humming house...
• It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.