The Secret Splendour

Falling..

Falling in love I fell

To a depth no heart could see,

 But never dreamt that I would drop

Down sheer infinity.

Where am I falling

Through day, through night—

Beyond the face be loved,

Past sound, past sight?

Inward and still more inward

The deep urge plumbing goes,

Words are a distance left behind,

On the future the eyelids close.

Suddenly the drop mending

Is a stillness, bare

 Of miles to cross and hours to span—

An Ever that is everywhere.

No more is the heart a-strain

To clasp the Shining One.

All is within the body's warmth,

The heart a deathless sun.

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