The Secret Splendour

Minnie—10.8.1982

1. To Her

Heart whose each beat cried "Brother" to my heart,

Love that shone ever from a depth of gold—

Could such keen life fall victim to time's dart?

Surely some secret of the Timeless came,

A sweet undying vibrance, to unfold

Infinity's hue to richen your own flame.

Clear sign you had borne of high God-given birth—

Those lips of beauty touched by truths unseen!

Verse, winging free beyond the nights and days

That smile or sigh a short spell over earth,

Revealed the Immortal's trance to be your gaze ...

Yet from the white of visionary space

Your mystery shared our common grey and green,

Throbbed to each ache of the dust and, till your death,

Sistered my body and soul in one warm breath.

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2. From Her

"Let the pang pass!

Why must you grieve

When the gold summons came

For the small life to leave

"All its dim joys and tears?

I am one with the Heart in whom

My wandering days and nights

Sought infinite room.

"But, from that godlike glow,

 Still my arms stretch to you

Bridging the loneliness between

 Earth's eye and heaven's hue.

"O let their dream-touch wake

 Your sleep to an inmost sight

That clasps in my loved face

The dawn of a deathless light!"

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