Sun Blossoms

Burn No More Candles

BURN no more candles in a mid-night heart:
Sleep like a child in utter self-lost peace;
All ripples from life's surface shall depart
Into a lulled abode of motionless seas.

I Under the veil of blue infinity
Where deathless eyes like flaming jewels shine,
Tread moments crowned with new birth's ecstasy
Over memory's threshold in the spirits shrine.

Space has lost all its heavy hue of sighs
In a colourless still mystery of sound
The artist aureoled Sun-goddess dyes,
A symphony descending earthward bound.

Deep silence now has come upon the night,
Moon-song and star-song and gold-fretted Light.

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