Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEYOND?, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE


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First Line: What lies beyond the splendour of the sun
Last Line: To seek where god has hidden himself away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


WHAT lies beyond the splendour of the sun,
Beyond his flashing belt of sister-spheres?
What deeps are they whereinto disappears
The visitant comet's sword, of fire fine-spun?

What rests beyond the myriad lights that run
Their nightly race around our human fears?
Hope-signals raised on multitudinous spears
Of armies captained by the Eternal One?

Beyond the sun, and far beyond the stars,
Beyond the weariness of this our day,
Beyond this fretting at the prison-bars,
The urgent soul, divine in soulless clay,
Bids us set forth, through endless avatars,
To seek where God has hidden Himself away.





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