Sun Blossoms

Heaven-Ascent

I SHALL yet rise like a lone star
In the dark firmament;
Nothing shall ever veil or bar
My spirits heaven-ascent.

His wondrous beauty I have seen
Shining in the inert clay,
A smile of deathless light within
Its heart of pale decay.

The nearness of his magic breath
Lifts me above the world
Of grey memories to a death
Tranquil and luminous-whorled.

And his vast soul of diamond. light
Presses with its sun-thought
Upon the drowse of circling night
In dream-crest billows fraught

With his splendour deep and measureless,
Pearl-pure and luminous gold,
A-brim with wine-red silences
In his cup of infinite mould.

All my dim hours are slowly changed
Into one motionless star
Of his vision, myriad beauty ranged
In a lone glow afar!

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