Beyond Earths Paradise

TO a great marble house of Time

I came a lonely guest;

He said Whatever riches you own,

Jewels and silver and the rest

Submit to me and I will bestow

On you the costliest boon,

Beauty and immaculate love,

Lifes crowning desire, hewn

From heavens perfect peace and joy;

In a frail mortal frame

Moments of immortality

And Gods red passion-ame!

In his bright mansion proud and high

I lived a very king,

Love owed around me like a stream

And beauty blossomed, a golden spring.

Happy was I as none has been,

Lost in a glinting world,

All my dreams intimately woven

In wavy locks and golden-curled.

My eyes drank like delicious wine

Gaze of a white felicity

And glowed as with a starry
re

Of wide sky-ecstasy.

But winter came and a chill frost

Froze the heart of the moon,

For morning buds and laughing streams

A grave of snow- white swoon.

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There came a deep and quiet voice:

Love has his short-lived hour:

His red
re fades and beauty dies

Turn to a greater power,

Pass by his transient earthly gifts;

Only by a bleeding sacri
ce

Of all you hold and crave and cherish

Is won the Timeless Paradise!

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