Sun Blossoms

Beyond Earth's Paradise

TO a great marble house of Time
I came a lonely guest;
He said Whatever riches you own,
Jewels and silver and the rest

Submit to me and I will bestow
On you the costliest boon,
Beauty and immaculate love,
Life's crowning desire, hewn

From heaven's perfect peace and joy;
In a frail mortal frame
Moments of immortality
And Gods red passion-flame!

In his bright mansion proud and high
I lived a very king,
Love owed around me like a stream
And beauty blossomed, a golden spring.

Happy was I as none has been,
Lost in a glinting world,
All my dreams intimately woven
In wavy locks and golden-curled.

My eyes drank like delicious wine
Gaze of a white felicity
And glowed as with a starry fire
Of wide sky-ecstasy.

But winter came and a chill frost
Froze the heart of the moon,
For morning buds and laughing streams
A grave of snow- white swoon.

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There came a deep and quiet voice:
Love has his short-lived hour:
His red fire fades and beauty dies
Turn to a greater power,

Pass by his transient earthly gifts;
Only by a bleeding sacrifice
Of all you hold and crave and cherish
Is won the Timeless Paradise!

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