MOUSIKE
(On hearing Mrs. Fullop Miller.)
THE air grows one with a voice;
Some magical sway ,
Has utterly changed the paltry hour
To a strangeness which is yet our one true home.
The calyx of the song no longer laps
The slowly opening silence that is Light.
Now the silence is a calm blue sky :
The song has become three dazzling doves
Of whiteness, and they wing with a lovely motion
Of a rapture unmingled and unmarred.
O harmony of incorruptible form
Stay further— in the hourglass every sand-grain
Is of gold—Time's metronome Is changed to the subtlest weaving
Of the Life Dance and the Hymn of Love.
February 24, 1937.
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