The Secret Splendour

Suddenly life's sweetest love was snatched away

 To a veiled Within that gave no marvel back.

Then a strange silence found its final word:

"This paradise must swallow up all bliss,

 Each smile and laugh and earth-intoxicate cry

Must plunge beyond its goldenest dream to a deep

 Of heaven-honeyed less, a void ever full,

Where sits the Solitary who is All,

Drunk with the infinitude of the One Self.

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