Sun Blossoms

Beauty's Sacrifice

O RADIANT minstrel of my heart
Sing from your shadow-lonely bower,
Where in white plenitudes apart
Your songs are wed to the timeless Hour.

The first glimpses of a new-born
Laugh of earth-flames in the green wood,
Birds bringing from the depths of dawn
Music of God-beatitude;

Natures prophetic scrolls of love
Lighting the dome of a dark height,
Cloud-foam-wrapt candles above
On the altar of the Infinite;

Still distances of snowy elds
On undulating sapphire space
And the moon-aureoled night that builds
A silence of weird pale blue rays

Are songs cast by the magic breath
Of Beauty, are a sacrifice
Offered, a lustrous-gleaming wreath
In her gold fame of memories.

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