1 We do not know if we drank that water.
2 "We shall bring the water to you," they said.
3 It is cooler in the fields," they said, "and there is water to drink.
4 We brought water from the stream which runs among the trees under our windows.
5 We can kill more birds than we need for our food; we find water and fruit in the forest.
6 We think that there are mysteries in the sky and under the water and in the plants which grow.
7 The door opened twice each day, once for the men who brought us bread and water, and once for the Judges.
8 The walls are cracked and water runs upon them in thin threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.
9 Then they knelt by the moat, they gathered water in their two hands, they rose and they held the water out to our lips.
10 And the drops of water falling from their hands, as they raised the water to their lips, were like sparks of fire in the sun.
11 It lay so still that we saw no water but only a cut in the earth, in which the trees grew down, upturned, and the sky lay at the bottom.
12 Then the Golden One saw us, and they did not move, kneeling there, looking at us, and circles of light played upon their white tunic, from the sun on the water of the moat, and one sparkling drop fell from a finger of their hand held as frozen in the air.