Now

　　Say nay¹，

　　Man dry man，

　　Dry lover mine

　　The deadrock base and blow the flowered anchor，

　　Should he， for centre sake， hop² in the dust，

　　Forsake³， the fool， the hardiness⁴ of anger.

　　Now

　　Say nay，

　　Sir no say，

　　Death to the yes，

　　the yes to death， the yesman and the answer，

　　Should he who split his children with a cure

　　Have brotherless his sister on the handsaw.

　　Now

　　Say nay，

　　No say sir

　　Yea the dead stir，

　　And this， nor this， is shade， the landed crow，

　　He lying low with ruin in his ear，

　　The cockrel's tide upcasting from the fire.

　　Now

　　Say nay，

　　So star fall，

　　So the ball fail，

　　So solve the mystic sun， the wife of light，

　　The sun that leaps on petals⁵ through a nought⁶，

　　the come-a-cropper rider of the flower.

　　Now

　　Say nay

　　A fig⁷ for

　　The seal of fire，

　　Death hairy-heeled and the tapped ghost in wood，

　　We make me mystic as the arm of air，

　　The two-a-vein， the foreskin， and the cloud.