Sun Blossoms

Sun-Birth

I STRAIN my mortal eyes to hear thy voice
Sweet and elusive like most subtle air:
Only an inmost silence and wide poise
Those deep intangible melodies can share.

Inorbed by thy spirits inexhaustible peace
I tread an unknown solitary way
To the heart's vast horizonless release
And the changeless beauty of immortal Day.

I have left behind the lonely shore of earth;
Dead are her brooding thoughts, her clay desires:
I have become a glory of sun-birth
That with outstretched arms of prayer to thee aspires.

Open to a new vision, now my eyes
Find a strange joy in each ephemeral thing;
And life no more a veil of mysteries,
But a shadowless ecstasy of awakening.

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