The Secret Splendour

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Mind free from thought, heart void of hunger's bond

Make room for a gold link with a vast Beyond.

A silence opens to an eternily,

Like some wide, quiverless, unsleeping eye.

A flame unflickering, rooted in core of clay,

Flies up to kiss a secret deathless Day.

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Out of the heart a fire goes flowering up

To unfold a secret halo round the face.

No vision of time's unrest can ever stop

The fathomless silence kindling in the gaze—

Sign of the Immortal in the mortal, lit

By the self-wakening bodied Infinite.

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"Nothing the kindled soul has known is lost:

There's but a seeming desert to be crossed.

Strive not. Stand deedless, silent, bare.

All 1 shall do. I wait within, to out-flare.

The godhead filling your muteness with his name,

A rhythm and rapture of the Undying's world-game!"

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Deep in heart's space a self-enraptured void

Eats ever the honey of a gold loneliness.

Out of that secrecy as in a dream

Earth's tossing seas and musing hills are born.

They are crossed, they are climbed, but through the

labour and love

Always the sense is aglow with the mysteried One

 Who is all yet world-free, infinitely None.

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