HERE where the loves of others close <br />The vision of my heart begins. <br />The wisdom that within us grows <br />Is absolution for our sins. <br /> <br /> <br />We took forbidden fruit and ate <br />Far in the garden of His mind. <br />The ancient prophecies of hate <br />We proved untrue, for He was kind. <br /> <br /> <br />He does not love the bended knees, <br />The soul made wormlike in His sight, <br />Within whose heaven are hierarchies <br />And solar kings and lords of light. <br /> <br /> <br />Who come before Him with the pride <br />The Children of the King should bear, <br />They will not be by Him denied, <br />His light will make their darkness fair. <br /> <br /> <br />To be afar from Him is death <br />Yet all things find their fount in Him: <br />And nearing to the sunrise breath <br />Shine jewelled like the seraphim.<br /><br />George William Russell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-226/
