Reveal – Poem by Mary Helen

 

O night, reveal the secret of thyself,

Wherein thy dark, unending, fathomless deeps

Can dwell such light as lent these diamond stars.

 

O sea, thee too must keep the secret hid,

For I have seen upon thy jet blown mane,

Thy laughing, sparkling dances answer the moon.

 

O forest, fragrant earth-creation's bed,

Thee too, far pregnant luxury of green

And leafy shadows cannot hide thy bloom.

 

O Nature, surely I too am thy child,

For deepest darkness dwells within this breast,

Here too, I beg reveal thy mystic Light!