Anna sits beside her research   Silence in the dappled moonlight   Sleeping cat and dying fire   Embers of the past conspire   All her books are closed and scattered    And she feels that nothing matters to her      Outside this dream her sister frequents   Like a cobweb catching fragments   She approaches like a vision   She says "Anna, do you hear me?"   But the picture's always shuttered   All the distant thoughts that flutter to her      I can see them all, I can hear them call   And as she falls I lean to say good-bye   Breathing all the wasted hours   Talking to the dying flowers   Dwarfed by spires and tangled towers   We don't ask the reason why      Anna comes and goes in shadows   Paintings of the open windows         Her photograph is always faded   Her sister's eyes are blank and shaded   Don't you understand her science   Merging in a strange alliance to her      We're together in the future   You and I and her together   All our fated are intermingled   We are plural, we are single   We are leaving for a meeting   And last seen the weather sleeting for her