Voice Within The Heart

I BEAR a subtle voice within my heart,

A silent power my will cannot ignore;

It calls me to a vastness where Thou art,

A aming sun beyond earths sombre door.

Lifes wanderer sails of thought drifting in each wind

Grow still on a transparent sea of hush

In the immensity of thy fathomless mind:

I am
lled with light-caress in a
ery rush.

The joy and grief of Natures ickering moods,

The search of passion in her wayless maze,

Are shadows forgotten by a soul that broods

On a rapturous Presence and a timeless Face.

I am awake to thy call and feel a high

Sense of omnipotence in my human frame,

While the whole universe seems to be a cry

To the apocalypt-vision of thy Name.

A crust has given way and I behold,

No more enslaved to earths mortality,

That Thou hast made my body into a gold

Vessel of the sun-wine of thy ecstasy.

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