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Scant majesty of stars prevails	A
across the uncreated night	B
and fate is in the wind that wails	A
or clamours on the lonely height	B
	-
The years that go to make me man	C
this day are told a score and six	D
that should have set me magian	C
o'er my half souls that struggle and mix	D
But wisdom still remains a star	E
just hung within my aching ken	C
and common prudence dwells afar	E
among contented homes of men	C
In wide revolt and ruin tost	B
against whatever is or seems	F
my futile heart still wanders lost	B
in the same vast and impotent dreams	F
On either hand life hurries by	G
its common joy its common mirth	H
I reach vague hands of sympathy	I
a ghost upon this common earth	H
	-
I said And let horizons tempt	B
and windy gates of eastern flame	J
henceforth my place is close and kempt	B
who know their mockery the same	J
Tho' nearer to my humble garth	K
no star may win its law's release	L
patience shall tend my modest hearth	K
and trim a golden flame of peace	L
wherein perchance from near and far	E
shall mingle boons right glad to wed	B
the mild ray of the distant star	E
and the mild oil earth's patience bred	B
No roof tree join'd the unfinish'd walls	M
no lamp might shine nor hearth fire burn	C
only the wind the wind that calls	M
may sing me welcome who return	C
	-
The pangs that guard the gates of joy	N
the naked sword that will be kist	B
how distant seem'd they to the boy	N
white flashes in the rosy mist	B
Ah not where tender play was screen'd	B
in the light heart of leafy mirth	H
of that obdurate might we ween'd	B
that shakes the sure repose of earth	H
And sudden 'twixt a sun and sun	C
the veil of dreaming is withdrawn	C
lo our disrupt dominion	C
and mountains solemn in the dawn	C
hard paths that chase the dayspring's white	B
and glooms that hold the nether heat	B
oh strange the world upheaved from night	B
oh dread the life before our feet	B
	-
My heart was wandering in the sands	O
a restless thing a scorn apart	B
Love set his fire in my hands	O
I clasped the flame unto my heart	B
Surely I said my heart shall turn	C
one fierce delight of pointed flame	J
and in that holocaust shall burn	C
its old unrest and scorn and shame	J
surely my heart the heavens at last	B
shall storm with fiery orisons	O
and know enthroned in the vast	B
the fervid peace of molten suns	O
The flame that feeds upon my heart	B
fades or flares by wild winds controll'd	B
my heart still walks a thing apart	B
my heart is restless as of old	B
	-
The banners of the king unfold	B
to tend me on my evening way	P
my trumpets flood the air with gold	B
my pride uplifts the vanquish'd day	P
The riches of my heart are bled	B
to feed the passion of the west	B
the limpid springs of life are shed	B
and Beauty bares her secret breast	B
Hasten O night with nuptial breath	Q
O hour remote from any face	O
vain glories fade to sweetest death	Q
heart whelm'd in her divine embrace	O
	-
What of the battles I would win	C
alas their glory is unheard	B
the wind of song wakes not their din	C
wandering in shadowy glens unstirr'd	B
And the great sorrows that I dream'd	B
not all unscathed I thought to rise	O
high in the dateless dawn redeem'd	B
and bare before eternal eyes	O
And is it then the end of dream	R
O heart that long'd for splendid woe	S
our shame to endure this dire extreme	R
of joy we scorned so long ago	S
	-
Disaster drives the shatter'd night	B
before its coming thro' the deep	T
the soul is swept with monstrous flight	B
of fears upstartled from their sleep	T
Its silent heaven is rolled away	P
and shaken stars flit to and fro	S
the mother face is livid grey	P
with dumb apocalypse of woe	S
The heart that knows its naked doom	U
awaits the unspoken shock of fate	B
perchance beyond these powers that loom	U
its hidden god shall rise more great	B
	-
The mother deep wise yearning bound	B
I feel it press beneath my heart	B
the deep where I were free and crown'd	B
o'er mine own realm alone apart	B
It haunts a grey unlit abysm	U
thro' solitary eyelet slits	O
pierced in the mean inflicted schism	U
where day deludes my purblind wits	O
But mighty hands have lock'd the keep	T
and flung the key long ages past	B
there lies no way into the deep	T
that is myself alone aghast	B
	-
What do I know myself alone	C
a gulf of uncreated night	B
wherein no star may e'er be shown	C
save I create it in my might	B
What have I done Oh foolish word	B
and foolish deed your question craves	O
think ye the sleeping depths are stirr'd	B
tho' tempest hound the madden'd waves	O
What do I seek I seek the word	B
that shall become the deed of might	B
whereby the sullen gulfs are stirr'd	B
and stars begotten on their night	B
	-
This is the sea where good and evil merge	V
The night is black we sail towards what sun	C
or lurid star may flare below the verge	V
This is the night where good or bad is none	C
O wandering soul upon this darkling surge	V
does it not pain thee for the days now done	C
the narrow days ere some dark god did urge	V
to seek some isle where life is whole and one	C

Christopher John Brennan

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