Points and Lines
by Aldous Huxley
Points and Lines was published in Huxley's short story collection, The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems in 1918.
NSTANTS in the quiet, small sharp stars, Pierce my spirit with a thrust whose speed Baffles even the grasp of time. Oh that I might reflect them As swiftly, as keenly as they shine. But I am a pool of waters, summer-still, And the stars are mirrored across me; Those stabbing points of the sky Turned to a thread of shaken silver, A long fine thread.
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