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It may be a carriage, a long-tongued cart.
Carol, carolus; it is CharlesΓÇÖs Wain,
the cart of Carolus Magnus, Charlemagne.
And in China a chariot again, a triumphal car
for the pole-star god, Shang-ti, with winged attendents.
III
Praying, some face Mecca; some face the East,
the sunrise, the new day dawning, the future.
The Son of Heaven faced north, saluting the pole-star,
his double: the unchanging, unwobbling Center. Planets,
moon and sun and the stars that partner them
all pass from sight and return, but there at the axis
eternity is unmoved and out of timeΓÇÖs reach.