In Exordium

Paramaecium

A pool of water, crystal clear and shimmering, beneath the light of
 an ancient moon. The water's cold tranquillity, majestic and
 refined in stillness and in clime, disturbed in brief by the passage
 of a lone vessel; the boat in carriage of the solitary one; the
 cloaked youth of sad temper and sorry virtue.

 In time, and not before time, beneath the overhang of tired
 branches, the vessel gains the embankment, the youth alighting on
 the shore. He wraps the cloak for warmth against the asperity of
 the night, and upon his gloved wrist the falcon waits until the light
 of dawn reveals that which is unseen, of the landscape of the land.

 As the boat moves off unnoticed, beneath a tree he reclines to lie
 and I know this story well, as one should, of he that is I.