One Moment

IMMENSELY calm and most ineffably sweet

Is the regard of those half-blossomed eyes!

How gentle is the pressure of those hands

When the heart bows before her lotus-feet!

A moments touchwhat founts of joy arise

Running through dull grains of my lifes dead sands

Like a cool stream where once never was shade!

As I stand rapt in that mysterious gaze,

My consciousness is hushed into a deep

Silence; being and thought and universe fade

Into oblivion; this earths prison maze

Where in our gilded chains we laugh and weep

Through Lifes unending Circles, day and night,

Falls off like a leaf torn by a short breath

Of wind; the gurge of violent Time is cast

Into the silence of a lone sky-height.

I look into those God-eyes that conquer death,

Oceans of love and tides of rapture vast

Mad with a drunkards joy I quaff and brim;

The
nite for this one moment brief drinks

The In
nite.

One moment only, alas!

Times seizes and Space dungeons and the dream,

The deep spell breaks. I am left on the grey brinks

Of human consciousnessweltering morass

Of a blind ignorance cresseted with desire:

A dark sea with a phosphorescent Fire!

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