Sun Blossoms

Holocaust

OUT of a distant deep you came
Through a rustling nearness of woods,
white flower of an unknown name,
Blossom of rapt solitudes!
From every petal you shed
Your hue of fragrant peace
And life awakes to strange far-spread
Reveries.

In the sleepless heart of night
Gleamed no star,
No dimmest flicker of light
Close or far!

In the depths you kindled the rapture-glow
Of a moon-haloed fire;
We heard the immortals music ow
From heaven's golden lyre.

O Beauty on the highest peak,
From the snow of its sunlit death
One hewed you, streak on streak
Of colour, breath on living breath.

Alone and crowned like a queen you shone
On the edge of the Infinite,
But you left the unshadowed timeless Dawn,
The eternal invisible height,

And into the valley of ignorance
On inconscient earth you came
To lift her from dumb abysmal trance
To thy home of deathless Flame.

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