Up from the dark an elfin singing

[winkingstar]

Last night I babysat a 5-year-old boy named Isaac. (He's the son of someone I worked with at the library.) It was the best job ever. I babysat for about an hour, then sent the kid to bed, and proceeded to read for two and a half hours. And I got paid for that. Awesomeness. :)

Today's poem~~~

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There was an island in the sea
That out of immortal chaos reared
Towers of topaz, trees of pearl,
For maidens adored and warriors feared.

Long ago it sunk in the sea;
And now, a thousand fathoms deep,
Sea-worms above it whirl their lamps,
Crabs on the pale mosaic creep.

Voyagers over that haunted sea
Hear from the waters under the keel
A sound that is not wave or foam;
Nor do they only hear, but feel

The timbers quiver, as eerily comes
Up from the dark an elfin singing
Of voices happy as none can be,
And bells an ethereal anthem ringing.

Thereafter, where they go or come,
They will be silent; they have heard
Out of the infinite of the soul
An incommunicable word;

Thereafter, they are as lovers who
Over an infinite brightness lean:
"It is Atlantis!", all their speech;
"To lost Atlantis have we been."

~ "Atlantis" by Conrad Aiken

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It's such a nice, dreamy poem. And there's just something about sea exploration and sailing and legends of Atlantis and such that fascinate me.

Time for "The Office"! *scampers off*