Sudden Memory

EXILED on earth I lived

In deep forgetfulness;

I could no more believe

That once my weary days

Had seen the timeless wings

Approach like a Visiting star

Or veiled awakenings

Where nights extremities are.

Then came to my memory

A sudden luminous streak,

As hovering over a tree

A golden poignant beak

That tasted every fruit;

And each that fell from the boughs

Awoke within the mute

Interminable drowse

Of earth, a growing
re

Invading her rocky sleep,

Ascending ever higher

To the viewless height of a steep.

There like a spray it broke

In scintillating rays

And from the abyss arose

With long forgotten days

Of lustrous thought and dream,

Circling around a sun

Lost veil of the Supreme

When shadows all are done.

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