Poems by Themis

O Marvellous Friend

O marvellous Friend whose beauty binds

The star-worlds in its spell,

Whose wisdom broods within our minds,

Whose love glows in each cell,

When your vast flood of blinding light

Sweeps breaking through the brain,

And shakes the fixities of sight,

And cleans thought's cluttered drain,

The rose-fires burst through clotted clay,

The leashed heart snaps its chain,

Rockholds of darkness shattered away,

Over earth sun-showers rain.

The fields are fields of golden grain,

Each flower a seraph flower,

And nectar flows through every vein,

For eternity's in this hour.

O marvellous Friend, whose love-charms spin

A circle on the deeps,

The earth of gold, entranced within

Your lap of beauty, sleeps.

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