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'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun	A
squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues to flood	B
his lov'd works as in turn he biddeth them Good night	C
and all the towers and temples and mansions of men	D
face him in bright farewell ere they creep from their pomp	E
naked beneath the darkness while to mortal eyes	F
'tis given ifso they close not of fatigue nor strain	G
at lamplit tasks 'tis given as for a royal boon	H
to beggarly outcasts in homeless vigil to watch	I
where uncurtain's behind the great windows of space	J
Heav'n's jewel'd company circleth unapproachably	K
'Twas at sunset that I fleeing to hide my soul	K
in refuge of beauty from a mortal distress	L
walk'd alone with the Muse in her garden of thought	M
discoursing at liberty with the mazy dreams	N
that came wavering pertinaciously about me as when	D
the small bats issued from their hangings flitter o'erhead	M
thru' the summer twilight with thin cries to and fro	O
hunting in muffled flight atween the stars and flowers	P
Then fell I in strange delusion illusion strange to tell	K
for as a man who lyeth fast asleep in his bed	M
may dream he waketh and that he walketh upright	M
pursuing some endeavour in full conscience so 'twas	Q
with me but contrawise for being in truth awake	R
methought I slept and dreamt and in thatt dream methought	M
I was telling a dream nor telling was I as one	A
who truly awaked from a true sleep thinketh to tell	K
his dream to a friend but for his scant remembrances	S
findeth no token of speech it was not so with me	T
for my tale was my dream and my dream the telling	U
and I remember wondring the while I told it	M
how I told it so tellingly And yet now 'twould seem	V
that Reason inveighed me with her old orderings	S
as once when she took thought to adjust theology	T
peopling the inane that vex'd her between God and man	W
with a hierarchy of angels like those asteroids	S
wherewith she later fill'd the gap 'twixt Jove and Mars	S
Verily by Beauty it is that we come as WISDOM	X
yet not by Reason at Beauty and now with many words	S
pleasing myself betimes I am fearing lest in the end	M
I play the tedious orator who maundereth on	Y
for lack of heart to make an end of his nothings	S
Wherefor as when a runner who hath run his round	M
handeth his staff away and is glad of his rest	M
here break I off knowing the goal was not for me	T
the while I ran on telling of what cannot be told	M
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For not the Muse herself can tell of Goddes love	Z
which cometh to the child from the Mother's embrace	S
an Idea spacious as the starry firmament's	S
inescapable infinity of radiant gaze	S
that fadeth only as it outpasseth mortal sight	M
and this direct contact is 't with eternities	S
this springtide miracle of the soul's nativity	T
that oft hath set philosophers adrift in dream	V
which thing Christ taught when he set up a little child	M
to teach his first Apostles and to accuse their pride	M
saying 'Unless ye shall receive it as a child	M
ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven '	-
So thru'out all his young mental apprenticehood	M
the child of very simplicity and in the grace	S
and beauteous attitude of infantine wonder	A2
is apt to absorb Ideas in primal purity	M
and by the assimilation of thatt immortal food	M
may build immortal life but ever with the growth	B2
of understanding as the sensible images	S
are more and more corrupt troubled by questioning thought	M
or with vainglory alloy'd 'tis like enought the boy	C2
in prospect of his manhood wil hav cast to th' winds	S
his Baptism with his Babyhood nor might he escape	D2
the fall of Ev'ryman did not a second call	K
of nature's Love await him to confirm his Faith	E2
or to revoke him if he is whollylapsed therefrom	V
And so mighty is this second vision which cometh	F2
in puberty of body and adolescence of mind	M
that forgetting his Mother he calleth it 'first Love'	Z
for it mocketh at suasion or stubbornness of heart	M
as the oceantide of the omnipotent Pleasur of God	M
flushing all avenues of life and unawares	S
by thousandfold approach forestalling its full flood	M
with divination of the secret contacts of Love	Z
of faintest ecstasies aslumber in Nature's calm	V
like thought in a closed book where some poet long since	S
sang his throbbing passion to immortal sleep with coy	C2
tenderness delicat as the shifting hues	S
that sanctify the silent dawn with wonder gleams	S
whose evanescence is the seal of their glory	M
consumed in self becoming of eternity	M
til every moment as it flyeth cryeth 'Seize	S
Seize me ere I die I am the Life of Life '	-
'Tis thus by near approach to an eternal presence	S
man's heart with divine furor kindled and possess'd	M
falleth in blind surrender and finding therewithal	K
in fullest devotion the full reconcilement	M
betwixt his animal and spiritual desires	S
such welcome hour of bliss standeth for certain pledge	G2
of happiness perdurable and coud he sustain	G
this great enthusiasm then the unbounded promise	S
would keep fulfilment since the marriage of true minds	S
is thatt once fabled garden amidst of which was set	M
the single Tree that bore such med'cinable fruit	M
that if man ate thereof he should liv for ever	A2
Friendship is in loving rather than in being lov'd	M
which is its mutual benediction and recompense	S
and tho' this be and tho' love is from lovers learn'd	M
it springeth none the less from the old essence of self	Z
No friendless man 'twas well said can be truly himself	Z
what a man looketh for in his friend and findeth	F2
and loving self best loveth better than himself	Z
is his own better self his live lovable idea	M
flowering by expansion in the loves of his life	Z
And in the nobility of our earthly friendships	S
we hav al grades of attainment and the best may claim	V
perfection of kind and so since ther be many bonds	S
other than breed friendships of lesser motiv found	M
even in the brutes and since our politick is based	M
on actual association of living men 'twil come	V
that the spiritual idea of Friendship the huge	H2
vastidity of its essence is fritter'd away	I2
in observation of the usual habits of men	D
as happ'd with the great moralist where his book saith	F2
that ther can be no friendship betwixt God and man	W
because of their unlimited disparity	M
From this dilemma of pagan thought this poison of faith	F2
Man soul made glad escape in the worship of Christ	M
for his humanity is God's Personality	M
and communion with him is the life of the soul	K
Of which living ideas when in the struggle of thought	M
harden'd by language they became symbols of faith	F2
Reason builded her maze wherefrom none should escape	D2
wandering intent to map and learn her tortuous clews	S
chanting their clerkly creed to the high echoing stones	S
of their hand fashion'd temple but the Wind of heav'n	W
bloweth where it listeth and Christ yet walketh the earth	F2
and talketh still as with those two disciples once	S
on the road to Emmaus where they walk and are sad	M
whose vision of him then was his victory over death	F2
thatt resurrection which all his lovers should share	J2
who in loving him had learn'd the Ethick of happiness	S
whereby they too should come where he was ascended	M
to reign over men's hearts in the Kingdom of God	M
Our happiest earthly comradeships hold a foretaste	M
of the feast of salvation and by thatt virtue in them	V
provoke desire beyond them to out reach and surmount	M
their humanity in some superhumanity	M
and ultimat perfection which howe'ever 'tis found	M
or strangeley imagin'd answereth to the need of each	K2
and pulleth him instinctivly as to a final cause	S
Thus unto all who hav found their high ideal in Christ	M
Christ is to them the essence discern'd or undeiscern'd	M
of all their human friendships and each lover of him	V
and of his beauty must be as a bud on the Vine	W
and hav participation in him for Goddes love	Z
is unescapable as nature's environment	M
which if a man ignore or think to thrust it off	Z
he is the ill natured fool that runneth blindly on death	F2
This Individualism is man's true Socialism	V

Robert Seymour Bridges

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