Evolution [1]

Evolution - I

I passed into a lucent still abode
    And saw as in a mirror crystalline
    An ancient Force ascending serpentine
The unhasting spirals of the aeonic road.
Earth was a cradle for the arriving god
    And man but a half-dark half-luminous sign
    Of the transition of the veiled Divine
From Matter's sleep and the tormented load

Of ignorant life and death to the Spirit's light.
    Mind liberated swam Light's ocean vast,
        And life escaped from its grey tortured line;
I saw Matter illumining its parent Night.
    The soul could feel into infinity cast
        Timeless God-bliss the heart incarnadine.