The Secret Splendour

Your love for me is like unearthly water

Singing in silver curves along my flesh—

A wizard mesh

Of melted moonlight fallen from afar

To capture and dissolve in lustrous sleep

The heart's unvisioning hurry towards the grave.

O seraph wave,

White prelude of some incorruptible Deep

Whose rumour haunts me like an aureole,

You come to wash and heal forever the scar

That is my body on the secret soul.

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