The Secret Splendour

One magic day

All men will know

You were most beautiful—

And their eyes will glow.

But who shall guess

How lonesomely

Like a prayer your loveliness

You gave to me?

Will they touch the spirit

 Whose body came

To all like a flower

But to one like a flarie

Lit on some altar

Of ancient rock

In a cavern whose secret

No words unlock?

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