Sun Blossoms

The Rising Flame

THE flame of an eternal life
Burns inly like a deathless star;
Inviolate as a cliff
Its incense-wings rise towards the Far.

On our high summit tracts it throws
Reflections of a shadowless bliss,
Fragrance of heaven's immortal Rose,
A glory of crimson silences.

A rapture cadence of a wave
From an immutable moonfringed sky,
It came into the body's cave
The Timeless seizing time's deep cry.

The smile of a sun-haloed Face
Colours the bare and voiceless sea;
In breathless bleak and trammelled space
Heart-beats of moon-White ecstasy!

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