I Must Be Far

0:00 I must be far from men and women to love

0:13 their ways.

0:17 I must be on a mountain breathing greatly

0:20 like a tree if my heart would yearn a little

0:23 for the peopled, placid valley.

0:26 I must be in a bare place and lonely as a

0:30 moon to find the graceless ways of people

0:33 worthful

0:34 as a flower's ways,

0:35 a flower that lives for loveliness and dies

0:39 when beauty dies.

0:41 I cannot find music on the tongues of men and

0:44 women unless I hear their voices like echoes,

0:47 silence softened.

0:49 Their many words mean little,

0:52 their mouths are blatant sparrows.

0:55 I must be far from men and women as God is

0:59 far away to keep my faith with beauty,

1:02 my heart

1:03 sweet towards them,

1:05 and love them with a God's tranquility and a

1:12 poem.