For Mary Helen

Eternal Marriage

I wear the nuptial band, the soul's embrace

Made physical in dense matter's world,

But in this denseness is there still not space

For ether, fire, God, in atom's mould?

The body's sensuous attraction palls

Before the light in the beloved's eyes

And something in the inner nature calls

Remembrance of those lost eternities.

A recognition from the vasts of space,

A conscious union of souls no longer blind,

In unknown bodies knowledge of a place

Beyond the settled precincts of the mind.

In a blue-white flame was forged the ring of love

No force can separate nor death remove.