Sun Blossoms

One Moment

IMMENSELY calm and most ineffably sweet
Is the regard of those half-blossomed eyes!
How gentle is the pressure of those hands
When the heart bows before her lotus-feet!
A moment's touch—what founts of joy arise
Running through dull grains of my life's dead sands
Like a cool stream where once never was shade!
As I stand rapt in that mysterious gaze,
My consciousness is hushed into a deep
Silence; being and thought and universe fade
Into oblivion; this earth's prison maze
Where in our gilded chains we laugh and weep
Through Life's unending Circles, day and night,
Falls off like a leaf torn by a short breath
Of wind; the gurge of violent Time is cast
Into the silence of a lone sky-height.
I look into those God-eyes that conquer death,
Oceans of love and tides of rapture vast
Mad with a drunkards joy I quaff and brim;
The finite for this one moment brief drinks
The Infinite.

One moment only, alas!
Times seizes and Space dungeons and the dream,
The deep spell breaks. I am left on the grey brinks
Of human consciousness weltering morass
Of a blind ignorance cresseted with desire:
A dark sea with a phosphorescent Fire!

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