Heaven's Denizen

I SAW a shape of heavens delight

Playing on the earths sombre shore,

Whose beauty opening to dawn-sight

Surprised my hearts lone slumbering door.

Her face was a splendour of living hue

Culled like the mornings single rose:

Never a cloud or shadow she knew,

A child of heavens bright repose.

From dawn to eve she played with time

As if her feet could never tire,

A deathless rhythm, a heavenly rhyme,

Was her untamable soul of
re.

Her laughter like a magic bell

Cleaving the nights dark consciousness

Echoed in memorys amber shell

And in spirals lost its moon-white trace.

Whenever her limbs of light would take her

Through trodden ways under arches of thought,

Even a murmur would awake her

To an ancient solitude star-enwrought.

The sky, the earth and the rocking sea

Are the sleepless cradle of her vision;

A growing ame of in
nity,

Her birth was a celestial mission.

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