Seeking with the stultifying mind Answers that can only come when calm Descends and breeches the thickened fortress walls, Crosses the draw-bridge of our ignorance, Above the moat of our obscurity Subdues the defenders of old and fixed ideas And the guardians of superior intellect, Enters the Chamber with the sword of peace Installing on the throne the rightful heir. Only then begins the warrior-quest Who seeks for truth in life's uncertainty, For love that burns a bright unsullied flame, A body to bear divine unbearable bliss, These births accompanied by careful death Who moves us when we can no lonermove Or grow into the image we adore, And steps upon a path of consciousness That seems a plain or often an abyss But spirals upward to the living source Whom we name God but still inapt to see That we, invested with his force shall be The infinite of his infinity.
Poems Undated (1727)
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