The Secret Splendour

Inward

All night long

 I see the flames afar,

But I voyage inward

 In a boat of star.

Deep and deeper,

Beyond your loves and hates—

 A cool dream laden

With silver freights,

My lonely calm

 Follows a rapture-breeze,

Until I wander

 Dazzling seas.

Billows of light

Rise up and press me down;

In a golden beauty

My silvers drown.

Past all gloom

 My voyager heart 's in-drawn,

One with eternal

Depths of dawn.

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