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Thou Anxious One! And dost thou then not hear / Against thee all my surging senses sing? / About thy face in circles drawing near / My thought floats like a fluttering white wing.
Dost thou not see, before thee stands my soul / In silence wrapt my Springtime's prayer to pray? / But when thy glance rests on me then my whole / Being quickens and blooms like trees in May.
When thou art dreaming then I am thy Dream, / But when thou art awake I am thy Will / Potent with splendour, radiant and sublime, / Expanding like far space star-lit and still / Into the distant mystic realm of Time.