The Island Sun

The Island Sun

I have sailed the golden ocean
    And crossed the silver bar;
I have reached the Sun of knowledge,
    The earth-self's midnight star.

Its fields of flaming vision,
    Its mountains of bare might,
Its peaks of fiery rapture,
    Its air of absolute light,

Its seas of self-oblivion,
    Its vales of Titan rest,
Became my soul's dominion,
    Its Island of the Blest.

Alone with God and silence,
    Timeless it lived in Time;
Life was His fugue of music,
    Thought was Truth's ardent rhyme.

The Light was still around me
    When I came back to earth
Bringing the Immortal's knowledge
    Into man's cave of birth.