Poems
THEME/S
In the cave of Altamira, hidden afar
On walls of ancient rock, lie the dawn-streaks
Of art, the painter soul's awakening
To animal beauty and animal energy—
Bison for ever caught by primitive hands!
But older than this cave, a secrecy
Hung between earth and eternity, is the rapt
Room of the inmost reverie within man.
Here hides a power of world-creating art,
Here dawns the ultimate simplicity
From whose omniscient oneness springs the birth
Of the million moods that make our universe.
The truth-soul Vigilling through time's changing tones
Writes, on the walls of this profound of trance,
Visions which archetype the animal heart-
Miraculous strengths fighting mortality!
Both seer and child is that ecstatic soul,
For this deep cave is a mother-mystery,
A paradising wisdom-wondrous womb.
But we who broke from it have lost the smile
Dreaming eternally on its magic mouth.
Wanderers are we, blind to the mountain-poise
Where heavenly inwardness delights itself!
Once more the womb must take us. Far withdrawn
From fragmentary Lustres, scattered loves,
We through a shining sleep above the mind
Must gather back the prime beatitude,
Awake again to our own divinity
And come new-born, wearing an aura of gold.
But O some voice of grace from heights occult
Must tune us to the path silvery straining,
Behind life's veil, towards the lone harmony!
What mantra shall draw down that guiding grace?
Sublime and sweet Source of all lovely light,
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Goddess! how should we name Thee, by what prayer
For clay's perfection call Thy word of help
From the hill-cave of Thy omnipotent calm!
Shall we from Altamira learn to invoke
Thy spirit as Mira of the Altitudes?. . .
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