The Moon in her horizon high
did give light to the midnight sky.
Her silvery warmth, my sould did calm.
Assurance made she would come
no harm.
The lady in the sky
bade me sit, and by and by
did the waves approach
bearing Moonlight as if
a gilded
coach.
I did sit for a while.
The lady, she did beguile.
Her countenance fair as silk,
her voice as sweet as
honeyed
milk.
Secrets she did impart to me
of life, of love, and of the sea
whilst cloudless sky
above the Earth did cool and
silent fly.
"Why waits thee here,
thine heart cold with fear?
Know ye not of treasured truth
oft forgot but known
in youth?
"Love of all the Earth awaits.
Readily the Elements unlock their gates.
Power of the world ye hold in thine hand.
Or 'tis a single grain
of sand?"
The lady's words I took to heart.
A question from my lips did depart,
"Lady, say what thy wilt,
what use have I for grain
of silt?"
Ever kind she did reply
as she bade me gaze into the sky,
"The Earth with this grain was begun anew,
from highest peak to
morning
dew.
"This pow'r is the lore of all.
Merely one precept should thou recall:"
Such words from her lips were spilt
"And it harm none, do as
thy wilt.
"A Name shall I give
by which ye shall forever live:
Timid Sand shall ye be known."
And so it was said by the
Moonlight
Crone.
"For as the sand upon the beach
my helping hand thou didst beseech.
Here ye waits, small and shy
for the azure waves to lift ye
by and by.
"And carry you in their arms
away from all and safe from harm.
Toward love and peace and thought
for, too, your soul of Earth
is wrought."
With that the lady did arise
and turn to walk toward the skies.
Her words my heart did feel the same
Timid Sand would be
my Name.
