Emblems Of Love

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Yea, here the end

Of love’s astonishment! Now know we Spirit,

And Who, for ease of joy, contriveth Spirit.

Now all life’s loveliness and power we have

Dissolved in this one moment, and our burning

Carries all shining upward, till in us

Life is not life, but the desire of God,

Himself desiring and himself accepting.

Now what was prophecy in us is made

Fulfilment: we are the hour and we are the joy,

We in our marvellousness of single knowledge,

Of Spirit breaking down the room of fate

And drawing into his light the greeting fire

Of God,—God known in ecstasy of love

Wedding himself to utterance of himself