Sun Blossoms

Voice Within The Heart

I BEAR a subtle voice within my heart,
A silent power my will cannot ignore;
It calls me to a vastness where Thou art,
A flaming sun beyond earth's sombre door.

Life's wanderer sails of thought drifting in each wind
Grow still on a transparent sea of hush
In the immensity of thy fathomless mind:
I am filled with light-caress in a ery rush.

The joy and grief of Natures flickering moods,
The search of passion in her wayless maze,
Are shadows forgotten by a soul that broods
On a rapturous Presence and a timeless Face.

I am awake to thy call and feel a high
Sense of omnipotence in my human frame,
While the whole universe seems to be a cry
To the apocalypt-vision of thy Name.

A crust has given way and I behold,
No more enslaved to earth's mortality,
That Thou hast made my body into a gold
Vessel of the sun-wine of thy ecstasy.

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