The Secret Splendour

Dream-piercing by an apex of intent

Earthward desire in pyramidal blaze

The unknown Power descends from a gold base

Of visionary voiceless firmament.

The pale mind reels beneath the rapture-gaze

Of godhead focused to a flaming point

And swoons, a self-forgetfulness conjoint

In gradual glory with eternal space.

Through hours of beauty unescapable

All life is shaped to a miraculous breadth

Of calm inverse pyramidal god-poise

A fire timelessly—a conscious hill

Down-sloped by some King-builder of the skies

To monument His lordship over death.

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