A drowning swimmers dream

Who art thou

Asked the guardian of the night

From crystal purity I come

Was my reply

And great my thirst, Persephone

Yet heeding thy decree

I take to flight

and turn, and turn again

Forever right

I spurn the pallid cypress tree

Seek no refreshment at its sylvan spring

but hasten on toward the rustling river of Mnemosyne

Wherein I drink to sweet satiety

And there, dipping my palms between

The knots and loopings of its mazy stream

I see again, as in a drowning swimmers dream

All the strange sights I ever saw

And even stranger sights no man has ever seen

This poem is one of my favourite the author is unknown . It is recited by the Character Klimt(played by John Malkovitch) from  the movie Klimt  as directed by Raul Ruiz. It is for me is one of the poems a meditation on the end of life and the transition that one passes through but looked at from the point of view af the fantastic visisons that one would encounter when they reach that stage.