To claim these verses as my own would be to
be a traitor
So listen to the voice of the Ancient Bard, my Author and Creator:
I am the universe
The singer, the song and the sing-song
The ringer, the bell and the ding-dong
The immortal artist and the art and the mortal eye
I am the meaning of words,
The definite article, the present participle,
The past and future perfect.
I am the nature of truth
The one true nature
And the true nature of one:
The numeral and the innumerable
The single and the many thousand things:
The soul and the whole
The rice and the bowl
The author and the play
The night and the day
The cradle and the hearse
The poet and the verse
In this one verse
This Universe.