Sun Blossoms

Bird Of Light

A GIANT bird of Light
From infinity
Looks on the slumbering
Earth silently.

Its endless vigil sees
The luminous brood
Of the ephemeral stars
Blown out and renewed,

And earth's white memory
Like a circling fire
Behind the shadows of life
That suffer and aspire.

Ever it pours from its heart
A wine of the sun,
Pressed from Gods luminous vines
Till the glooms are done.

Its deathless moments bring
An Elysian sleep,
Woven of the secrecies
Of His timeless Deep.

Its soul is a pearl of Light
In the hush of the sky,
An eternal wonder-Vigils
Mystery!

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