Descent-Ascent

IN the silent spaces of my thought

A glow of unknown beauty falls;

White dreams of moon-edged spheres have brought

A diamond sleep within their walls.

I stand on the worlds lonely verge

And look across its timeward shore,

Where the hearts eagle-winged urge

Rises beyond earths sombre door

In a aming ecstasy of light,

And from the unseen vastitude

Comes down the formless In
nite

On the altar of our humanhood.

He takes a shadowy mortal shape;

But fathomless immensities

With an omnipotent power drape

His bodys limitless mysteries,

And his giant souls inscrutable
re

Awakes from the motionless depth of night

A secret sun, and we aspire

Like a prayer on a solitary height

To grow into a life divine

Crowned by a gold eternity,

Where every moment is the shine

Of his splendour in a timeless sky.

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