Union

THOU hast tinged my vagrant life

With silver hues of dawn

And the gold
res of eve,

Over sky and earth hast drawn,

The night, a velvet couch

For my tired soul to rest

In a bright felicity

On thy calm and peaceful breast.

I sleep oblivious

Of mortal hankerings;

Dreams of thy love and beauty

Visit with heavenly wings

And leave their memory

Haunting my still repose,

Like the subtle fragrant breath

Of a lustrous divine Rose.

The conquering smile of thy eyes

And thy immaculate thought

Reveal like a sudden ash

The God-face I have sought

Through countless veils of birth,

A shadow seeking Light;

Though lost was thy white trail

In the wide gulfs of night,

Thou hast kept thy sleepless watch

On my erring human ways.

When, plunged in the abyss,

I called thy in
nite Grace,

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Thou hast come, Beloved and Friend,

To lift to thy Sun

Leading through timeless deeps

To intimate union.

Now the thick veil is rent

And we for ever meet:

My life a passion-ower

Laid at thy luminous feet!

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