The Secret Splendour

Between

Between the brief heart-beats snail silences—

 Small like thin clefts of fathomless canyons,

Abysses of the unknown, God-gaps in man.

 A fabulous future waits our frailties there.

He whom the throbs that measure passing life

 Hold not engrossed—who stands aware of the dark

 Hidden twixt flash and flash of earth-desire

Seizes even now a sudden divinity—

 The timelessness haunting sleep's solitude—

 That infinite distance, death's forgetful face—

 The fullness of the void whose gaze is the sun—

 The Omnipresent's secret pierced by the stars.

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