I have sailed the golden ocean

                        And crossed the silver bar;
            I have reached the Sun of knowledge

The earth-self ’s midnight star.

Its fields of flaming vision,

Its mountains of bare might,
Its peaks of fiery rapture,

Its air of absolute light,

Its seas of self-oblivion,

Its vales of Titan rest,

Became my soul’s dominion,

Its Island Blest.

Alone with God and silence,

Timeless it lived in Time;
Life was His fugue of music,

Thought was Truth’s ardent rhyme.

The Light was still around me

When I came back to earth
Bringing the Immortal’s knowledge

Into man’s cave of birth.   

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