I saw my life as whitest flame
light-leaping in a crystal sky,
and virgin colour where it came
pass'd to its heart, in love to die.
It wrapped the world in tender harm
rose-flower'd with one ecstatic pang:
God walk'd amid the hush'd alarm,
and all the trembling region rang
music, whose silver veils dispart
around the carven silences
Memnonian in the hidden heart —
now blithe, effulgurant majesties.
More verses by Christopher John Brennan
- Come Out, Come Out
- Each Day I See The Long Ships Coming Into Port
- The Pangs That Guard The Gates Of Joy
- Iii. The Shadow Of Lilith
- Epilogue: 1908