The Secret Splendour

A cave eaten by time in a mountain's flank

Fills with eternity the soul of man:

The rugged darkness deepens to a god

And looks out at the known world from the unknown,

Breathing on visible things an ancient sleep

That is omniscience sunk in its own light:

Here breaks the secret of that sovereign hush,

Cry of Infinity's creation heard

By none save seekers of Infinity's calm

With all their self one inward listening cave.

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