Sun Blossoms

Prayer

LET every moment of my life
Be crowned with diamond thoughts of Thee;
Chisel from the hard granite rocks
A statue of divinity.

Colour my dawn and desert-noon
With wonder-fires of thy delight
And tune my heaven's dusky mood
To symphonies of thy starry night.

Dispel all blemishes by thy touch
And make my Spirits kingdom shine
In glory like a deathless sky,
A cup filled with thy heavenly wine.

In the infinite silence let me merge
Untraversed by the faintest sound,
No wrinkle of rough time disfigure
The Eternals timeless calm around.

Draw from the slumbering depths of my sea
Pearled expressions of the soul,
Thy unmanifest creative Word,
The splendours of thy golden scroll.

From the undiscovered shoreless Vast
Slowly thy mysteries unfold:
My mortal vision lift to sight,
Each atom with thy Beauty mould.

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