Gabriel whispered in mine ear <br />His archangelic poesie. <br />How can I write? I only hear <br />The sobbing murmur of the sea. <br /> <br />Raphael breathed and bade me pass <br />His rapt evangel to mankind; <br />I cannot even match, alas! <br />The ululation of the wind. <br /> <br />The gross grey gods like gargoyles spit <br />On every poet's holy head; <br />No mustard-seed of truth or wit <br />In those curst furrows, quick or dead! <br /> <br />A tithe of what I know would cleanse <br />The leprosy of earth; and I - <br />My limits are like other men's. <br />I must live dumb, and dumb must die!<br /><br />Aleister Crowley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dumb/
