Sun Blossoms

Union

THOU hast tinged my vagrant life
With silver hues of dawn
And the gold fires of eve,
Over sky and earth hast drawn,

The night, a velvet couch
For my tired soul to rest
In a bright felicity
On thy calm and peaceful breast.

I sleep oblivious
Of mortal hankerings;
Dreams of thy love and beauty
Visit with heavenly wings

And leave their memory
Haunting my still repose,
Like the subtle fragrant breath
Of a lustrous divine Rose.

The conquering smile of thy eyes
And thy immaculate thought
Reveal like a sudden ash
The God-face I have sought

Through countless veils of birth,
A shadow seeking Light;
Though lost was thy white trail
In the wide gulfs of night,

Thou hast kept thy sleepless watch
On my erring human ways.
When, plunged in the abyss,
I called thy infinite Grace,

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Thou hast come, Beloved and Friend,
To lift to thy Sun
Leading through timeless deeps
To intimate union.

Now the thick veil is rent
And we for ever meet:
My life a passion-flower
Laid at thy luminous feet!

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