I have sailed the golden ocean
And crossed the silver bar;
I have reached the Sun of knowledge,
The earth-self’s midnight star.
Its fields of flaming vision,
Its mountains of bare might,
Its peaks of fiery rapture,
Its air of absolute light,
Its seas of self-oblivion,
Its vales of Titan rest,
Became my soul’s dominion,
Its Island of the Blest.
Alone with God and silence,
Timeless it lived in Time;
Life was His fugue of music,
Thought was Truth’s ardent rhyme.
The Light was still around me
When I came back to earth
Bringing the Immortal’s knowledge
Into man’s cave of birth.
Notes on Text
13 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts.
