Beyond This World's Peripheries

I met her only once yet know

That beauty is as spirits go,

From other worlds they come to us

Soaring high and dipping low,

Low enough to touch our eyes!

O loveliness of soul surprise

My blinded view with inner sight

That I may see where heaven lies

Beyond this world's peripheries.

Or is heaven in these earthly skies

These waters teeming with a light,

This soil of human destinies?