ONE thing in all things have I seen: <br />One thought has haunted earth and air: <br />Clangour and silence both have been <br />Its palace chambers. Everywhere <br /> <br /> <br />I saw the mystic vision flow <br />And live in men and woods and streams, <br />Until I could no longer know <br />The dream of life from my own dreams. <br /> <br /> <br />Sometimes it rose like fire in me <br />Within the depths of my own mind, <br />And spreading to infinity, <br />It took the voices of the wind: <br /> <br /> <br />It scrawled the human mystery— <br />Dim heraldry—on light and air; <br />Wavering along the starry sea <br />I saw the flying vision there. <br /> <br /> <br />Each fire that in God's temple lit <br />Burns fierce before the inner shrine, <br />Dimmed as my fire grew near to it <br />And darkened at the light of mine. <br /> <br /> <br />At last, at last, the meaning caught— <br />The spirit wears its diadem; <br />It shakes its wondrous plumes of thought <br />And trails the stars along with them.<br /><br />George William Russell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/unity-29/
