23.07.2007, 11:11
A world of beauty and a reign of law--
A glimpse of life's obscure authentic lord--
A link from mote to planet,--these with awe
The saint and lover crave, in deep accord.
Yet must the lover ofttimes turn aside
From where the saint, sure of his truth, would bound
Powers that, beyond known confines circling wide,
The unproved dominance of his dream confound.
Sometimes across the vastness of free sky,
Beyond the orbit of life's charted world,
A wandering spectre of the dark goes by--
A flaming comet out of chaos hurled:--
And wise men doubt their wisdom, as that light
Plunges unknown down chasms of boundless night.
A glimpse of life's obscure authentic lord--
A link from mote to planet,--these with awe
The saint and lover crave, in deep accord.
Yet must the lover ofttimes turn aside
From where the saint, sure of his truth, would bound
Powers that, beyond known confines circling wide,
The unproved dominance of his dream confound.
Sometimes across the vastness of free sky,
Beyond the orbit of life's charted world,
A wandering spectre of the dark goes by--
A flaming comet out of chaos hurled:--
And wise men doubt their wisdom, as that light
Plunges unknown down chasms of boundless night.