Unrung Change
Our churches have no bells;
the harridans of hell
have come and cut them down.
To every chapel-town
they came and took our voice.
In cheer and fear the bells
across the plains and hills
spoke words of hope and faith;
they now are merely wraiths;
they now have lost all voice.
Our churches have no bells;
their songs will never swell
with clamor born of joy;
their bronze is now destroyed
and we have lost our voice.
Casting Correspondences on the Old Man's Tortoise Shell
Patternable pattern: unstable pattern.
Nameable name: unstable name.
Nameless: therefore root of sky and land.
Named: therefore mother of ten myriad things.
Therefore:
Never yearning: seeing the profound.
Ever yearning: seeing the surface.
Both these things: the same result.
Opposing names: the same meaning.
Therefore:
One obscure: both obscure.
Much that is profound: therefore a way through.
