The Secret Splendour

Yours is a universe-filling smile.

No smallest need left anywhere—

 Bliss that is life and life that is bliss

In the whole immense of circling air!

What shall we crave when all seems ours,

Bathed in this all-transfiguring light

Greeting us from your lips and eyes—

Smile of a joy that is infinite

And therefore brings in every flash

The secret heaven-heart of each thing,

Whose golden throb we never seize

When to the blinded crust we cling?

For you Eternity's inwardness

Echoes in the e outwardness of Time;

Your eyes' clear depth and your lips' soft swell

Catch us up in that rapturous rhyme.

O strange love wanting for your own

 The salt taste of our tiny tears

And giving us through day and night

The smile that fills the universe!

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