X—EPILOGUE

X—EPILOGUE

Up the Grand Canyon the full morning flowed.I heard the voices moving through the abyssWith the deep sound of pine-woods, league on leagueOf singing boughs, each separate, each a voice,Yet all one music;The Eternal MindEnfolds all changes, and can never change.Man is not exiled from this Majesty,The inscrutable Reality, which he sharesIn his immortal essence. Man that doubtsAll but the sensuous veils of colour and sound,The appearances that he can measure and weigh,Trusts, as the very fashioner of his doubt,The imponderable thought that weighs the worlds,The invisible thought that sees; thought that revealsThe miracle of the eternal paradox—The pure unsearchable Being that cannot beYetIs, and still creates and governs all;A Power that, being unknowable, is best known;For this transcendent Being can replyTo every agony, “I am that which waitsBeyond the last horizon of your pain,Beyond your wildest hope, your last despair,Above your heaven, and deeper than your hell.There is not room on earth for what ye seek.Is there not room in Me?”Time is a shadowOf man’s own thought. Things past and things to comeAre closed in that full circle. He lives and reigns;Dies with the dying bird; and, in its deathReceives it to His heart. No leaf can fallWithout Him; who, for ever pouring outHis passion into worlds that shall attainLove in the highest at last, returns for everAlong these roads of suffering and of death,With all their lives upgathered to His heartInto the heaven of heavens. How else could lifeLay hold on its infinitude, or winThe strength to walk with Love in complete light?For, as a child that learns to walk on earth,Life learns these little rhythms of earthly law,Listens to simple seas that ebb and flow,And spells the large bright order of the starsWherein the moving Reason is revealedTo mans up-struggling mind, or breathed like songInto the quiet heart, as love to love.So, step by step, the spirit of man ascendsThrough joy and grief; and is withdrawn by deathFrom the sweet dust that might content it hereInto His kingdom, the one central goalOf the universal agony. He lives.He lives and reigns, throned above Space and Time;And, in that realm, freedom and law are one;Fore-knowledge and all-knowledge and free-will,Make everlasting music.Far awayAlong the unfathomable abyss it flowed,A harmony so consummate that it sharedThe silence of the sky; a song so deepThat only the still soul could hear it now:New every morning the creative WordMoves upon chaos. Yea, our God grows young.Here, now, the eternal miracle is renewedNow, and for ever, God makes heaven and earth.

Up the Grand Canyon the full morning flowed.I heard the voices moving through the abyssWith the deep sound of pine-woods, league on leagueOf singing boughs, each separate, each a voice,Yet all one music;The Eternal MindEnfolds all changes, and can never change.Man is not exiled from this Majesty,The inscrutable Reality, which he sharesIn his immortal essence. Man that doubtsAll but the sensuous veils of colour and sound,The appearances that he can measure and weigh,Trusts, as the very fashioner of his doubt,The imponderable thought that weighs the worlds,The invisible thought that sees; thought that revealsThe miracle of the eternal paradox—The pure unsearchable Being that cannot beYetIs, and still creates and governs all;A Power that, being unknowable, is best known;For this transcendent Being can replyTo every agony, “I am that which waitsBeyond the last horizon of your pain,Beyond your wildest hope, your last despair,Above your heaven, and deeper than your hell.There is not room on earth for what ye seek.Is there not room in Me?”Time is a shadowOf man’s own thought. Things past and things to comeAre closed in that full circle. He lives and reigns;Dies with the dying bird; and, in its deathReceives it to His heart. No leaf can fallWithout Him; who, for ever pouring outHis passion into worlds that shall attainLove in the highest at last, returns for everAlong these roads of suffering and of death,With all their lives upgathered to His heartInto the heaven of heavens. How else could lifeLay hold on its infinitude, or winThe strength to walk with Love in complete light?For, as a child that learns to walk on earth,Life learns these little rhythms of earthly law,Listens to simple seas that ebb and flow,And spells the large bright order of the starsWherein the moving Reason is revealedTo mans up-struggling mind, or breathed like songInto the quiet heart, as love to love.So, step by step, the spirit of man ascendsThrough joy and grief; and is withdrawn by deathFrom the sweet dust that might content it hereInto His kingdom, the one central goalOf the universal agony. He lives.He lives and reigns, throned above Space and Time;And, in that realm, freedom and law are one;Fore-knowledge and all-knowledge and free-will,Make everlasting music.Far awayAlong the unfathomable abyss it flowed,A harmony so consummate that it sharedThe silence of the sky; a song so deepThat only the still soul could hear it now:New every morning the creative WordMoves upon chaos. Yea, our God grows young.Here, now, the eternal miracle is renewedNow, and for ever, God makes heaven and earth.

Up the Grand Canyon the full morning flowed.I heard the voices moving through the abyssWith the deep sound of pine-woods, league on leagueOf singing boughs, each separate, each a voice,Yet all one music;The Eternal MindEnfolds all changes, and can never change.

Up the Grand Canyon the full morning flowed.

I heard the voices moving through the abyss

With the deep sound of pine-woods, league on league

Of singing boughs, each separate, each a voice,

Yet all one music;

The Eternal Mind

Enfolds all changes, and can never change.

Man is not exiled from this Majesty,The inscrutable Reality, which he sharesIn his immortal essence. Man that doubtsAll but the sensuous veils of colour and sound,The appearances that he can measure and weigh,Trusts, as the very fashioner of his doubt,The imponderable thought that weighs the worlds,The invisible thought that sees; thought that revealsThe miracle of the eternal paradox—The pure unsearchable Being that cannot beYetIs, and still creates and governs all;A Power that, being unknowable, is best known;For this transcendent Being can replyTo every agony, “I am that which waitsBeyond the last horizon of your pain,Beyond your wildest hope, your last despair,Above your heaven, and deeper than your hell.There is not room on earth for what ye seek.Is there not room in Me?”Time is a shadowOf man’s own thought. Things past and things to comeAre closed in that full circle. He lives and reigns;Dies with the dying bird; and, in its deathReceives it to His heart. No leaf can fallWithout Him; who, for ever pouring outHis passion into worlds that shall attainLove in the highest at last, returns for everAlong these roads of suffering and of death,With all their lives upgathered to His heartInto the heaven of heavens. How else could lifeLay hold on its infinitude, or winThe strength to walk with Love in complete light?For, as a child that learns to walk on earth,Life learns these little rhythms of earthly law,Listens to simple seas that ebb and flow,And spells the large bright order of the starsWherein the moving Reason is revealedTo mans up-struggling mind, or breathed like songInto the quiet heart, as love to love.So, step by step, the spirit of man ascendsThrough joy and grief; and is withdrawn by deathFrom the sweet dust that might content it hereInto His kingdom, the one central goalOf the universal agony. He lives.He lives and reigns, throned above Space and Time;And, in that realm, freedom and law are one;Fore-knowledge and all-knowledge and free-will,Make everlasting music.Far awayAlong the unfathomable abyss it flowed,A harmony so consummate that it sharedThe silence of the sky; a song so deepThat only the still soul could hear it now:New every morning the creative WordMoves upon chaos. Yea, our God grows young.Here, now, the eternal miracle is renewedNow, and for ever, God makes heaven and earth.

Man is not exiled from this Majesty,

The inscrutable Reality, which he shares

In his immortal essence. Man that doubts

All but the sensuous veils of colour and sound,

The appearances that he can measure and weigh,

Trusts, as the very fashioner of his doubt,

The imponderable thought that weighs the worlds,

The invisible thought that sees; thought that reveals

The miracle of the eternal paradox—

The pure unsearchable Being that cannot be

YetIs, and still creates and governs all;

A Power that, being unknowable, is best known;

For this transcendent Being can reply

To every agony, “I am that which waits

Beyond the last horizon of your pain,

Beyond your wildest hope, your last despair,

Above your heaven, and deeper than your hell.

There is not room on earth for what ye seek.

Is there not room in Me?”

Time is a shadow

Of man’s own thought. Things past and things to come

Are closed in that full circle. He lives and reigns;

Dies with the dying bird; and, in its death

Receives it to His heart. No leaf can fall

Without Him; who, for ever pouring out

His passion into worlds that shall attain

Love in the highest at last, returns for ever

Along these roads of suffering and of death,

With all their lives upgathered to His heart

Into the heaven of heavens. How else could life

Lay hold on its infinitude, or win

The strength to walk with Love in complete light?

For, as a child that learns to walk on earth,

Life learns these little rhythms of earthly law,

Listens to simple seas that ebb and flow,

And spells the large bright order of the stars

Wherein the moving Reason is revealed

To mans up-struggling mind, or breathed like song

Into the quiet heart, as love to love.

So, step by step, the spirit of man ascends

Through joy and grief; and is withdrawn by death

From the sweet dust that might content it here

Into His kingdom, the one central goal

Of the universal agony. He lives.

He lives and reigns, throned above Space and Time;

And, in that realm, freedom and law are one;

Fore-knowledge and all-knowledge and free-will,

Make everlasting music.

Far away

Along the unfathomable abyss it flowed,

A harmony so consummate that it shared

The silence of the sky; a song so deep

That only the still soul could hear it now:

New every morning the creative Word

Moves upon chaos. Yea, our God grows young.

Here, now, the eternal miracle is renewed

Now, and for ever, God makes heaven and earth.


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