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Cameron, Norman - My soul is some leviathan in vague distress
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Norman Cameron – Collected Poems
My soul is some leviathan in vague distress
That travels up great slopes of hills beneath the sea
Up from the darkness and the heaviness
Into a slowly gathering radiancy
But wiser now alas! To plunge and swim away
For if he burst upon that mystic light of day
Leviathan must gasp in lack of breath
And find what dwellers in the sea call death
We hapless dwellers in the sea cannot be told
No brave leviathan has ever back returned
To tell us how stupendous mountains rolled
Like porpoises beneath a sky that burned.
How unimaginable light along his scales
Changed colour, till leviathan was mailed in glory
We have but rumours, unsubstantial tales
And who would give his life up for a story?