Heaven-Ascent

I SHALL yet rise like a lone star

In the dark
rmament;

Nothing shall ever veil or bar

My spirits heaven-ascent.

His wondrous beauty I have seen

Shining in the inert clay,

A smile of deathless light within

Its heart of pale decay.

The nearness of his magic breath

Lifts me above the world

Of grey memories to a death

Tranquil and luminous-whorled.

And his vast soul of diamond. light

Presses with its sun-thought

Upon the drowse of circling night

In dream-crest billows fraught

With his splendour deep and measureless,

Pearl-pure and luminous gold,

A-brim with wine-red silences

In his cup of in
nite mould.

All my dim hours are slowly changed

Into one motionless star

Of his vision, myriad beauty ranged

In a lone glow afar!

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