IN AMALTHAEA'S HORN

Be beautiful, life, for that is how I need you:

Like an orchestrated waltz in the song of violins Swirling like the flight from a giddy penthouse Down to a symphonic splash in green-glazed dewiness; Like the morning rise into clear billowed clouds Of golden haze, remembered and aspired to be today; Like the light-tanned silk of youth-mad caressing skin; Like sage Saroyan's smile which loves what is no more than man, Who is time's only ever-child in God's unnecessary eyes; Like star spawned neck-stones sparkling in the happiness of night, Inviting lips to pause, and press into the softness they surround, Or frenzied jazz that tinkles towers in 2 a.m. retreats; . Like all these, in a word: like love, be beautiful to me.

Thirteen Dartmouth Poems was published in 1958, Thirty Dartmouth Poems in 1959, and Forty Dartmouth Poems in 1962. All three volumes were made possible by The Charles Butcher Fund.