A Spacescape (poetry) — The Mysterious Sea of Cryptic Xanadu

1907

A Spacescape

Beside the white mysterious sea
Of cryptic Xanadu,
My Sophie walked abroad with me
To rubber at the view.

"We've never seen a view like this!"
Cried Sophie — "My, oh my!"
And really 'twas a view, I wis,
To catch a lady's eye.

There was no sun or moon to heed,
No clouds went sailing by,
No stars were in the sky — indeed,
There wasn't any sky.

Our eyes fell on no hills or trees,
No stand or turf was there,
And all the landscape, if you please,
Consisted just of air.

We did not firmly tread the ground —
The ground to tread was not —
And how we two could get around
I really have forgot.

No other tourists, rich or poor,
Were in sight anywhere —
Indeed I am not very sure
That even we were there.

—Richmond Times-Dispatch.