The Island Sun

I have sailed the golden ocean And crossed the silver bar; I have reached the Sun of knowledge The earth-self ’s midnight star. Its fields of flaming vision, Its mountains of bare might, Its peaks of fiery rapture, Its air of absolute light, Its seas of self-oblivion, Its vales of Titan rest, Became my soul’s dominion, Its Island Blest. Alone with God and silence, Timeless it lived in Time; Life was His fugue of music, Thought was Truth’s ardent rhyme. The Light was still around me When I came back to earth Bringing the Immortal’s knowledge Into man’s cave of birth. Page-106