Sun-Birth

I STRAIN my mortal eyes to hear thy voice

Sweet and elusive like most subtle air:

Only an inmost silence and wide poise

Those deep intangible melodies can share.

Inorbed by thy spirits inexhaustible peace

I tread an unknown solitary way

To the hearts vast horizonless release

And the changeless beauty of immortal Day.

I have left behind the lonely shore of earth;

Dead are her brooding thoughts, her clay desires:

I have become a glory of sun-birth

That with outstretched arms of prayer to thee aspires.

Open to a new vision, now my eyes

Find a strange joy in each ephemeral thing;

And life no more a veil of mysteries,

But a shadowless ecstasy of awakening.

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