Single Smile

A SINGLE smile from thee awakes in us

A bliss unknown to worlds of human thought;

Losing lifes shadow-inconsistencies

Our hearts are to a luminous harmony wrought.

Our life and death are thy mysterious boons;

Haloed by thy grace an inner beauty glows;

Even their wild notes and disparate tunes

Blend in thy play like petals of a rose.

Ever we bow to what thy will decides,

For unimpeachable is thy secret law;

Though from our eyes thy occult purpose hides

And we are carried like an aimless straw

On the wide current of thy will, we shall reach

Our heaven built with granite rocks of peace

On the bright desert of a timeless beach,

Washed by the laughter-waves of seven seas.

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