Season of Alterings

How softly sang the wind in his dreamy silken music

Of a change in the heavens were the coils of men unwound

When one played upon a pipe ten others heard and wept 

When a hundred saw the light a thousand cried

As understanding alters so too the seasons of fish and birds

Of a change in the world were their cages opening

And all the winged little ones did swim away free

Too small to trap love’s tiddlers escaped man's horrid snare

As knowledge alters so too the seasons of men and trees

Of a change in the wind did their sap rise or fall

Where one tree bent double two others fell forward

Where four saw the light eight others were slain  

In joyous loss they held to nothing that could be seen

Of love were all free to go flying upon their falls

Lifted higher and higher the greater the descent

Of old judgments freed, all turned, changed about!