Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MESSAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN


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First Line: Then in petals of the air
Last Line: Was the secret's rosy proving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund


THEN in petals of the air,
In clouds that roses rather were,
In blue pools of the tranquil sky,
In summer ether calm and high,
With ripe and budding blossom smiling,
Haunted new and meek beguiling.

Then although that sky looked down
On shattered church and crazy town,
On bodies hurt and left in heaps,
On vigils pale and carnal sleeps,
It tinged a flush of phantom rose
And yearned with its divine disclose.

Whose that radiance, whose that whisper,
Zephyr-glimmer, voice of Hesper?
Then unknown! the mystery pure
Sparkled in the vast colure
A message from a far hill sheening,
Yet no lens could meet its meaning.

After-time has seemed to prove
What the signal twinkled: Love,
Love that hovering ever nearer
Soon in one beloved was clearer,
Who with me in one path moving
Was the secret's rosy proving.





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