The Silken Tassel/The Three in One
The Three in One
Through the long lone lane of the dim dull dawn,
With a strong grim struggle with numb-cold night,
Lo! a golden spark from the bold sun shone—
And there was Light!
With a strong grim struggle with numb-cold night,
Lo! a golden spark from the bold sun shone—
And there was Light!
While the whole high heaven was a soulless space,
And like cold clay seem’d all the green earth’s grove,
There a warm ray smiled with a new-known grace—
And there was Love!
And like cold clay seem’d all the green earth’s grove,
There a warm ray smiled with a new-known grace—
And there was Love!
On the deep dry sands of the gloom-set shore,
When a wide world lay in seraphic strife,
Ran a thrill and throb through the dreamless ore—
And there was Life!
When a wide world lay in seraphic strife,
Ran a thrill and throb through the dreamless ore—
And there was Life!
Oh, this Light, Love, Life: each has blameless bloom;
And they all in one with a green thought grew:
Oh, my Light-Love-Life! when I grope in gloom,
Say, where are you?
And they all in one with a green thought grew:
Oh, my Light-Love-Life! when I grope in gloom,
Say, where are you?