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ANOMALY, by                    
First Line: How strange that you, whose world was always one
Last Line: Diana may recall you to her train.


How strange that you, whose world was always one
Of teeming forests and of wing-filled skies,
Of quivering silence, splintered by a gun,
And the belled sweetness of a dog's quick cries,
Should give your valiant heart into the care
Of one whose strength a field mouse would disdain,
Whose heart, more timid than a hunted hare,
Shrinks in a hole beneath your fearsome plane --

It is as if Orion, by some freak,
(Sirius barking vainly by his side)
Should overlook the Pleiades, and seek
A star of faint degree to be his bride;
And so I live in fear, lest once again
Diana may recall you to her train.





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