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The hollow crystal of my winter dream	A
and silences where thought for worship white	B
shimmer'd within the icy mirror gleam	A
vanishes down the flood of broader light	B
The royal weft of arduous device	C
and starr'd with strangest gems my shadowy pride	D
and ritual of illusive artifice	E
is shed away leaving the naked side	D
No more is set within the secret shrine	F
a wonder wherein day nor night has part	G
my passing makes the ways of earth divine	F
with the wild splendours of a mortal heart	G
A whisper thrills the living fringe of green	H
on my retreat tiptoe the silence stands	I
the breathless morn waits till her step be seen	H
my summer bride new life from nuptial lands	I
The hidden places of her beauty hold	J
the savours shed o'er wastes of island air	K
and her crown'd body's wealth of torrid gold	J
burns dusky in her summer storm of hair	K
Her breasts in baffling curves an upward hope	L
strain towards the lips pain'd with too eager life	M
and the rich noons faint on each lustrous slope	L
where thunder hush in the ardent brake is rife	M
I cannot tell what god is in her gaze	N
such depths of slumbrous passion drown my breath	O
but where the charmed shadow clings and stays	N
Fate cowers before that high disdain of death	O
Oh take me to thy bosom's sultry beat	P
steep all my sense in thy long breath of flame	Q
oppress me with thy summer's heavy heat	P
consume all me that wears an uncrown'd name	Q
burn this my flesh to a clear web of light	B
send thy keen airy spirit to search each vein	R
that the hard pulse may throb with strong delight	B
o'ermastering life and life's divinest pain	R
Then then we twain will seek each farthest way	S
mingled in radiance over cloud and lea	T
our joy shall swell the exultant heart of day	S
our love shall tinge the rose of sky and sea	T
And we shall know the steep pride of the hills	U
and the dark meditation of the wood	V
or quench our rage where the red wine god spills	U
o'er glowing rocks the madness of his blood	W
Our link'd approach shall flush the water maid	X
that dreams her limpid realm with wistful eyes	Y
our noon tide rest shall haunt her memory's shade	X
vexing her dim breast with unwonted sighs	Y
And where our fiercer joys have thrill'd the earth	Z
shall burst hard stalks and cruel cups that keep	A2
strong soul of seasons dead to fill the dearth	Z
of lesser lives whose dream is dull with sleep	A2
And gloriously our summer's reign shall end	B2
in some dark pass that leads into the west	C2
burnt incense wise each blood shall sweetly blend	B2
exhaled in music from the love slain breast	C2
some eve whose dragon dying hides the sky	D2
and holds the hour on its empurpled wings	E2
while pallid seers proclaim the doom day nigh	D2
and shuddering nations watch the death of kings	E2
See now the time O eve of smoky brown	F2
the morbid season of my close content	G2
drown'd flame broad swathes of vapour closing down	F2
round the clear gaze that pierces vainly pent	G2
and knows how vain the hero death that flung	H2
far flame against the craven face of dark	I2
poor hero heart the minstrel summer sung	H2
O brooding hidden over a bitter cark	H2
how vain did not the hot strength of the earth	Z
exude in drifts of colour dwindling	H2
to dimmer odour wafts a hearted worth	Z
the long defeated tribes to altar bring	H2
The unslaked caravans of vast desire	J2
seeking in furnace sands some fierier rose	K2
with deadly heart the red crusades of ire	L2
following some dusky king of mighty woes	K2
unto a nameless fall in distant fight	B
such only freedom from the daily mesh	M2
spun by the crafty lord of wrong and right	B
the pride and splendour of rebellious flesh	M2
full sated with wild honey of summer's heart	G
the golden lot of ignominy that cast	N2
and craved the honour of a menial part	G
to follow on bleeding feet nor fell the last	N2
how high their pyre blazed with insensate will	O2
that the last word of their red tale be told	J
and o'er their darkening blood a moment still	O2
hung on horizon wings the spirit's gold	J
the ghost of flame in the vast crucible	P2
transmuted of some viewless Trismegist	J
haply the same whose touch inaudible	P2
dissolves the lingering leaf to evening mist	J
Now with the lucid flower cups in their hands	I
that star the pale fields of Thulean spring	H2
and silver from the moon made table lands	I
of snow the glimmering distance vanishing	H2
with opals that engeal the Boreal gleam	A
and diamond drip of ether's crystal thrill	O2
miraculous the cort ges of dream	A
over the hills of legend gathering fill	O2
the imaginary avenues of gloom	Q2
up to the watching windows that betray	S
the House of Contemplation vaulted room	Q2
soaring with shade that broods above pale day	S
pale day that wastes even since morning drain'd	J
by ambush'd mystery of its wanton breath	O
see now the time that rises pale unstain'd	J
the fixed light that charms the fields of death	O
A little yet a little wait O files	R2
obedient to my dumb command the brow	S2
may waive its frigid lordliness the wiles	R2
of the spent heart becloud it wait and thou	S2
dark presence large above the passing world	J
biding the full hour of the fated stroke	H2
ere in the sudden gust of truth be whirl'd	J
the veils of kindly Maya leaf or smoke	H2
let their suspense of smouldering glory be	T
yet mirror'd in this mind's unruffled pool	T2
or e'er beneath the implacable certainty	T
of icy light and thought's untarnish'd rule	T2
the vacant world stand rigid let me yet	J
this vesper ween I am not all alone	U2
and ponder with luxurious regret	J
over the singing golden morning flown	U2
soon soon enough the spirit unreproved	J
shall on its proud predestin'd circle range	V2
in dread indifferent solitude removed	J
above the poignant pageantry of change	V2
and the broad brows whose curves are centuries	W2
arise of Isis' carven front supreme	A
that bids the lucid soul in silence freeze	W2
the glittering crystal of my winter dream	A

Christopher John Brennan

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