Ultimate Quest

AT earths far end I sat alone

Upon a jutting slab of stone,

And watched the blue in
nity

Carrying its strange mystery.

I saw fall on its breath of foam

An opal hush from twilights dome,

I saw night wrap in starry veils

The folds of the moon-crested sails.

A shining
gure from the sea

With golden wings came near to me

And said, Down in my wonder-deep

White dreams and pearled visions sleep

Under a dark eternal seal;

To those who plunge I can reveal

Immortal splendours of sun and moon

Flowing from my cave of timeless swoon.

Throw off the earths yoke from thy soul,

My jewelled kingdoms shall unroll

Beyond thy dream-gaze and be thine,

Crowned with my measureless boons divine.

He vanished in the slumbrous night,

But left a Zone of heavenly light

Around me and my whole being and sense

Filled with his haloed magni
cence.

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With break of dawn the vision passed

From memory and I was cast

Into the whirl of times abyss,

Its wheel of circling histories.

But to my eyes the Wide world seemed

Like a dry seed; a grey sheath gleamed

Over its surface weary and old;

Life lay in deaths invisible hold.

Within by a
re and stillness pressed

I turned to my Spirits ultimate quest

In the inviolable shrine of God:

I made his Vast my lone abode.

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