2. Unnatural, let him but lumber again to air
3. Over the rotten office, let him bear
4. The carrion ballast up, and at the tall
5. Tip of the sky lie cruising. Then you'll see
6. That no more beautiful bird is in heaven's height,
7. No wider more placid wings, no watchfuller flight;
8. He shoulders nature there, the frightfully free,
9. The naked-headed one. Pardon him, you
10. Who dart in the orchard aisles, for it is he
11. Devours death, mocks mutability,
12. Has heart to make an edn, keeps nature new.
13. Thinking of Noah, childheart, try to forget
14. How for so many bedlam hours his saw
15. Soured the song of birds with its wheezy gnaw,
16. And the slam of his hammer all the day beset
17. The people's ears. Forget that he could bear
18. To see the towns like coral under the keel,
19. And the fields so dismal deep. Try rather to feel
20. How high and weary it was, on the waters where
21. He rocked his only world, and everyone's.
22. Forgive the hero, you who would have died
23. Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide
24. To Ararat all men are Noah's sons.
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