What is to be given, <br />Is spirit, yet animal, <br />Colored, like heaven, <br />Blue, yellow, beautiful. <br /> <br />The blood is checkered by <br />So many stains and wishes, <br />Between it and the sky <br />You could not choose, for riches. <br /> <br />Yet let me now be careful <br />Not to give too much <br />To one so shy and fearful <br />For like a gun is touch.<br /><br />Delmore Schwartz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-is-to-be-given/
