Classic Poem

The invocation of the Kingdom is also the invocation of ravishment .
The K INGDOM

O S ALEM , City on the mountain-top!
O promised land of honey and of milk!
O Aden, Eden, land of holy dream!
O House of God! With all its gardens girt,
Far shines the mystic City of the Soul,
City of Dream, City of our Desire,
And all who look thereon do evermore
Carry strange longings in their haunted eyes.
O Temples, palaces for chosen souls!
O floral emblems! O prophetic trees!
O visionary voices—the long days
And nights enchanting—of thy streams, thy birds!
O purple dreamland, infinite ecstasy!
The food of the visible frame is also the body of God .