The Spiritual Dawn

When on some wallowing soul the roseate East Dawns with the Ideal that awakes and gnaws, By vengeful working of mysterious laws An angel rises in the drowsed beast.

The inaccessible blue of the soul-sphere To him whose grovelling dream remorse doth gall Yawns wide as when the gulfs of space enthral. So, heavenly Goddess, Spirit pure and clear,

Even on the reeking ruins of vile shame Thy rosy vision, beautiful and bright, For ever floats on my enlargëd sight.

Thus sunlight blackens the pale taper-flame; And thus is thy victorious phantom one, O soul of splendour, with the immortal Sun! L'AUBE SPIRITUELLE.