These words that may not reach you… Are wrung from mine in bitter pain… You, reading, but despise their ar… That is not art but blood—in vain The blood is ebbing from my heart.

I see his blood upon the rose And in the stars the glory of his… His body gleams amid eternal snows… His tears fall from the skies. I see his face in every flower;

To-day when I beheld you all alon… And might have stayed to speak, th… Leapt up within my heart—then quic… New strength, the fruit of sorrow… Sank in my stormy bosom like a sto…

The drunken stars stagger across t… The moon wavers and sways like a w… Beneath my feet the earth like dri… Lapses and slides, wallows and sho… Immovable things start suddenly fl…

Now a gentle dusk shall fall Slowly on the world, and all The singing voices softly cease And a silence and great peace Cover all the blushing earth

White waves on the water, Gold leaves on the tree, As Mananan’s daughter Arose from the sea. The bud and the blossom,

I thought I’d never hear your ton… Again in this dead world of shame As once when heart and world were… And then—you spoke my name. The barriers of space were spread

Our lips can only stammer, yet we… High things of God. We do not hop… The splendour and the glory of his… Nor light up Heaven with our low… But we will follow thee, his hiero…

I sit and beg beside the gate, I watch and wait to see you pass, You never pass the portals old, That gate of gold like gleaming gl… Yet you have often wandered by,

Her hair’s the canopy of heaven, Her eyes the pools of healing are, Her words wild prophecies whose se… Thunders resound from star to star… Her hands and feet are jewels fine

She walks the azure meadows where… Shed glowing petals on her moon-wh… The planets sing to see her, and t… Her, nebulae unfold like nenuphars… No dread eclipse the morn of Heav…

Beside the golden gate there grows… Whose heavy fruit gives entrance t… Of Wonder, and the leaves thereof… Of desolation—nights of agony The buds and blossom for the fruit…

If the dread all-seeing stars, Ringed Saturn and ruddy Mars And their companions all the seven… That play before the lord of Heav… Each blossoming nebula and all

Rougher than Death the road I cho… Yet shall my feet not walk astray, Though dark, my way I shall not l… For this way is the darkest way. Set but a limit to the loss

Before the glory of your love The beauty of the world is bowed In adoration, and to prove Your praises every Truth is proud… Each silent witness testifies