The Secret Splendour

Yoga

I shut my eyes and saw a Face

Of everlasting fire

Against abysses of calm space

Where no world-wings aspire.

Under the invulnerable gaze

Of that prodigious Sun

My spirit grew a giant daze

Of self-oblivion.

But suddenly the mystic blaze

 And I were a single sense

Of some eternal fount of rays

 Pouring omnipotence ...

Then I awoke. Yet all my days

 Some mute in sky made bright

And all their span of tearful haze

 Rainbowed a deathless light.

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