In far Australia to sleep
You snuggle down; I here
Fancy that in your arms you keep
The world’s wide sphere –
This whole great multi-coloured All,
No larger than a playing-ball.
But if I move my lips to speak
Or try to touch your hand,
The coloured tissues with a shriek
To monstrous form expand,
And I apart from you am hurled
Across the endless, dreary world.
(I haven't been able to find the copyright holder -- Falcon Press, which originally published this, doesn't seem to exist. Get in touch if you are the copyright holder and wish to object.)
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