Sun Blossoms

Soul's Silence

O SILENCE of the infinite Soul,
Settle in my heart;
Make each beat of its mortal hour
A fathomless part

Of thy unimaginable deep;
My growing mood,
A motionless inscrutable fire
Of thy solitude,

Unmarred by the foam of timeless waves
That rise and fall
Along a verge of wandering dream
Beyond earth's call.

The luminous distances of life
Slowly retire
From the interruptions of dim thought
Into a higher

Existence, where for ever cease
All cry and stress
And vain shadows in a rhythmic sea
Of inwardness.

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