From a Schuylkill in mid-earth there came emerging

Flotillas, willed and wanted, bearing in them

Shadows of friends, of those he knew, each bringing

From the water in which he believed and out of desire

Things made by mid-terrestrial, mid-human

Makers without knowing, or intending, uses.

These figures verdant with time’s buried verdure

Came paddling their canoes, a thousand thousand,

Carrying such shapes, of such alleviation,

That the beholder knew their subtle purpose,

Knew well the shapes were the exactest shaping

Of a vast people old in meditation …

Under Tinicum or small Cohansey,

The fathers of the makers may lie and weather.