Classic Poem

Dies Dominica! the sunshine burns
strong incense on the breathing fields of morn:
lucid, intense, all colour towards it yearns
that souls of flowers on the air are born.

What claustral joy to-day is on the air
— expanding now and one with the celebrant sun —
and fills with pointed flame all things aware,
all flowers and souls that sing — and I am one!

Dies Dominica! the passion yearns,
and the whole world and singer is but one flower
from out whose luminous chalice odour burns
intenser toward the blue thro' this keen hour;

— this hour is my eternity! the soul
rises, expanding ever, with the sight,
thro' flowers and colours, and the visible whole
of beauty mingled in one dream of light.