The Secret Splendour

Within this vast and vacant night

 Dwindling to nothingness all light,

How shall my soul burn to the unknown?

But oh the high dark firmament—

Is not that empty calm God's own

 Incomprehensible silence blent

With the universe? H s secrecy

Hangs overhead—no huge dread eye

Refusing the heart's search but one

Wide world-effacing sign to go

Inward to a hidden hush and know

 His superhuman Self alone.

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