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For sure the enchanted waters pour through every wind that blows.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
And from the magic tree of life the fruit falls everywhere.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
We and it and all together flashing through the starry spaces
In a tempest dream of beauty lighting up the place of places.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
For beauty called to beauty and there thronged at the enchanter's will
The vanished hours of love that burn within the Ever-living still.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
The twilight fleeted away in pearl on the stream,
And night, like a diamond dome, stood still in our dream.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
The great deep thrills for through it everywhere
The breath of beauty blows.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Now the quietude of earth
Nestles deep my heart within;
Friendships new and strange have birth
Since I left the city's din.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Not unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways:
One timeless hour in time we caught from the long night of endless days.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.
The Hermit
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Though the dream of love may tire,
In the ages long agone
There were ruby hearts of fire —
Ah, the daughters of the dawn!
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Hush, not a whisper! Let your heart alone go dreaming.
Dream unto dream may pass: deep in the heart alone
Murmurs the Mighty One his solemn undertone.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Where we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted,
We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil was lifted.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
We are desert leagues apart;
Time is misty ages now
Since the warmth of heart to heart
Chased the shadows from my brow.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
A shaft of fire that falls like dew,
And melts and maddens all my blood,
From out thy spirit flashes through
The burning glass of womanhood.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
The tower of heaven turns darker blue; a starry sparkle now begins;
The mystery and magnificence, the myriad beauty and the sins
Come back to me.
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Its edges foamed with amethyst and rose,
Withers once more the old blue flower of day:
There where the ether like a diamond glows
Its petals fade away.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee,
Trembling I waken to a mystery,
How through one door we go to life or death
By spirit kindled or the sensual breath.
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What of all the will to do?
It has vanished long ago,
For a dream-shaft pierced it through
From the Unknown Archer's bow.
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We rise, but by the symbol charioted,
Through loved things rising up to Love's own ways
By these the soul unto the vast has wings
And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Oh, I am so old, meseems
I am next of kin to Time,
The historian of her dreams
From the long forgotten prime.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)