Poems
THEME/S
Most heart-consuming, most intensely cold,
A statue of unbearable loveliness
Above all intimate warm divinity,
Stands the white figure of the Absolute Dream
Breaking us with a bliss no life can hold.
Each heaven falls back from this Ineffable.
That smiling mouth is sealed, those great eyes locked,
The beatific limbs stay gestureless;
But by their sovereign secrecy of stone
All splendour is shaken to exceed itself:
We are drawn to a depth of trance that has no end,
We are lured into eternal distances,
We yearn for ever on from light to light
Since no reply the marble mystery makes.
So beautiful that, moveless, it moves all,
So still that beauty grows a vast beyond.
This is the fathomless strength by which we gauge
The paradise after paradise that is God—
This is the omnipotent support of the whole
Boundless adventure of the apocalypse—
Implacable lord of truth's infinity!
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