I WHO had sought afar from earth <br />The faery land to meet, <br />Now find content within its girth <br />And wonder nigh my feet. <br /> <br /> <br />To-day a nearer love I choose <br />And seek no distant sphere; <br />For aureoled by faery dews <br />The dear brown breasts appear. <br /> <br /> <br />With rainbow radiance come and go <br />The airy breaths of day; <br />And eve is all a pearly glow <br />With moonlit winds a-play. <br /> <br /> <br />The lips of twilight burn my brow, <br />The arms of night caress: <br />Glimmer her white eyes drooping now <br />With grave old tenderness. <br /> <br /> <br />I close mine eyes from dream to be <br />The diamond-rayed again, <br />As in the ancient hours ere we <br />Forgot ourselves to men. <br /> <br /> <br />And all I thought of heaven before <br />I find in earth below: <br />A sunlight in the hidden core <br />To dim the noonday glow. <br /> <br /> <br />And with the earth my heart is glad, <br />I move as one of old; <br />With mists of silver I am clad <br />And bright with burning gold.<br /><br />George William Russell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-new-world-17/
