Sun Blossoms

Heaven’s Denizen

I SAW a shape of heaven's delight
Playing on the earth's sombre shore,
Whose beauty opening to dawn-sight
Surprised my heart's lone slumbering door.

Her face was a splendour of living hue
Culled like the mornings single rose:
Never a cloud or shadow she knew,
A child of heaven's bright repose.

From dawn to eve she played with time
As if her feet could never tire,
A deathless rhythm, a heavenly rhyme,
Was her untamable soul of fire.

Her laughter like a magic bell
Cleaving the nights dark consciousness
Echoed in memorys amber shell
And in spirals lost its moon-white trace.

Whenever her limbs of light would take her
Through trodden ways under arches of thought,
Even a murmur would awake her
To an ancient solitude star-enwrought.

The sky, the earth and the rocking sea
Are the sleepless cradle of her vision;
A growing flame of infinity,
Her birth was a celestial mission.

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