The Secret Splendour

Still Water

Still water, reverie's gymnast, standing even

The Himalaya on its head! Occult-eyed seer

 To whom the depths are hidden heights and all

Heaven is a prophecy floating in earth's heart!

 Magician laying the sky at man's frail feet,

Yet by cool flattery flaming higher the ache

Of the prisoner soul for the bodiless beyond.

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