The Secret Splendour

Towards Transformation

Soul of the Sun, the Deathless, He am I!

Calm rays that pierce the infinite trance above

Shoot, through keen rays that cut all sleep below,

An immortal milk feeding the flesh for ever.

Now thought is endless light bared flash by flash—

Feeling, a flame-pulse of Unbounded bliss—

 Sense, a warm touch of the Perfect everywhere—

 Will, the white heat of a world-alchemy.

 Even the blind belly is God's grave no more.

The buried astronomer at the base of things,

Watching in vain through The spine's telescope

For some vast splendour Of the blue unknown

 To burst the doming dimness of the mind,

 Leaps with a dazzle of illimitable truth!

The omnipotent rays take root in the abyss

 To make the omniscient Orb a flower of the dust.

Soon shall life's breath be a rose-break beyond time

And each footfall eternity blessing earth.

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