The Adventure of the Apocalypse

From 8th may to 8th july

Two months of song have swept my soul

Out to the very nerves of sense

And with the body's vehemence

I have taken to myself the whole

Wonder of the timeless Secrecy!

Visions of day and dreams of night

Have thrilled with a single master-tone

Healing the broken world to one

Great globe of truth-illumined Eye

Behind the flickers of human sight.

My ear has caught a harmony

Like some huge gloriole of sound

Circling infinities around

The blindly beating heart of me.

With every breath I have inhaled

A perfume of eternal peace

From all the fluttering transiencies.

And my ten fingers, like ten rays

Sprung out of hidden knowledge, move,

Awaking everywhere a love

Whose deathless heat was lying veiled

By matter's blank unfeeling face.

But deeper than the eye or ear,

Breathing or touching, is the sheer

Sense of immortal bliss within

When, through each song whose rhythms fill

With nectar-waves of trance, I win

A taste of the Ineffable!

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