Share yourself out into all times and places
In this most holy feast!
Tear yourself through the intervening spaces,
Fill up the All, released!
You glide now in unmeasurable distance,
In the gods’ blessed dream,
And shine anew in joyful coexistence
With that star-spangled stream.
Drive yourself then, like unresisted comets,
Away and yet away,
As through the labyrinth of suns and planets
You cut your headlong way.
You swiftly grasp for unformed earths to fashion,
And shape them, fresh and deep,
To fill them fecundly with life and passion,
In one great measured sweep.
Circling you trace out Time’s arcane florescence
Within the ether’s drift,
Prescribe to stone the splits that are its essence,
The strict forms of each rift.
Now all things with a heavenly volition
To find perfection strive:
The parched green seeks the water of fruition,
Each dust mote is alive.
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Constrained within the loving paradoxes
Of night’s moist dews and steams,
Now Paradise, with tinted pomps and fluxes
Outstretched before you, gleams.
See how a host of opulent forms now rises
To find that light so fair,
And in the happy woods your eye surprises
The first love-smitten Pair.
And soon wild striving’s quenched in something holy,
Sweet glances mutual;
And life, most fair, with thanks receives most fully
The All back from the All.
1801