Holocaust

OUT of a distant deep you came

Through a rustling nearness of woods,

white ower of an unknown name,

Blossom of rapt solitudes!

From every petal you shed

Your hue of fragrant peace

And life awakes to strange far-spread

Reveries.

In the sleepless heart of night

Gleamed no star,

No dimmest icker of light

Close or far!

In the depths you kindled the rapture-glow

Of a moon-haloed
re;

We heard the immortals music ow

From heavens golden lyre.

O Beauty on the highest peak,

From the snow of its sunlit death

One hewed you, streak on streak

Of colour, breath on living breath.

Alone and crowned like a queen you shone

On the edge of the In
nite,

But you left the unshadowed timeless Dawn,

The eternal invisible height,

And into the valley of ignorance

On inconscient earth you came

To lift her from dumb abysmal trance

To thy home of deathless Flame.

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