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Moon The man wakes and looks out the lunar module window. He is on the Moon. He sees the earth beaming back at him, silent and subtle as it hangs in the midst of a sea of darkness.
Numbers 15 32: while the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day 33: and those that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron...
I'm a oceanid of the waves, Cast on to the green land. How I long to be in those whirlpools, To feel the seaweed flow through my hands. But I betrayed its master, And basked in the hot sun.