Sun Blossoms

Ultimate Quest

AT earth's far end I sat alone
Upon a jutting slab of stone,
And watched the blue infinity
Carrying its strange mystery.

I saw fall on its breath of foam
An opal hush from twilight's dome,
I saw night wrap in starry veils
The folds of the moon-crested sails.

A shining figure from the sea
With golden wings came near to me
And said, Down in my wonder-deep
White dreams and pearled visions sleep

Under a dark eternal seal;
To those who plunge I can reveal
Immortal splendours of sun and moon
Flowing from my cave of timeless swoon.

Throw off the earth's yoke from thy soul,
My jewelled kingdoms shall unroll
Beyond thy dream-gaze and be thine,
Crowned with my measureless boons divine.

He vanished in the slumbrous night,
But left a Zone of heavenly light
Around me and my whole being and sense
Filled with his haloed magnificence.

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With break of dawn the vision passed
From memory and I was cast
Into the whirl of time's abyss,
Its wheel of circling histories.

But to my eyes the Wide world seemed
Like a dry seed; a grey sheath gleamed
Over its surface weary and old;
Life lay in deaths invisible hold.

Within by a fire and stillness pressed
I turned to my Spirits ultimate quest
In the inviolable shrine of God:
I made his Vast my lone abode.

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