Sun Blossoms

Descent-Ascent

IN the silent spaces of my thought
A glow of unknown beauty falls;
White dreams of moon-edged spheres have brought
A diamond sleep within their walls.

I stand on the worlds lonely verge
And look across its timeward shore,
Where the heart's eagle-winged urge
Rises beyond earth's sombre door

In a flaming ecstasy of light,
And from the unseen vastitude
Comes down the formless Infinite
On the altar of our humanhood.

He takes a shadowy mortal shape;
But fathomless immensities
With an omnipotent power drape
His body's limitless mysteries,

And his giant soul's inscrutable fire
Awakes from the motionless depth of night
A secret sun, and we aspire
Like a prayer on a solitary height

To grow into a life divine
Crowned by a gold eternity,
Where every moment is the shine
Of his splendour in a timeless sky.

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