The Secret Splendour

An unknown sky breaks through my sleep today.

This brilliant blue is an ether of ecstasy

Wakening to immortal roots the lotus heart-

Depth beyond depth strikes inward, gripping God.

 Without this secret ether none can live.

 Its boundless azure glows not by sun-gold

But laughs with some eternal radiance

By whose one quiver Time's truth flashes out!

A beauty that needs no form to seize the soul,

 Because it bursts a sheer infinity:

A love that is effortlessly everywhere:

 Oneness in which a myriad hells grow heaven:

Fount of all, fire of all, fate of all—Bliss!

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