The Secret Splendour

Great is your Beauty, Earth.

Great is your beauty, earth!

All poets sing your praise,

And deck their reverie like a king

With your pearl nights and diamond days.

But I have fathomed now

A beauty greater still:

Your wealth so shines because a Light

 Far richer keeps invisible.

For when across you, earth,

I strain God-dazzled eyes,

 They can but view an ashy sun

Groping through blinded sable skies.

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