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/ No personal; a God divinely crowned / With gold and raised upon a golden throne / Deep in a golden glory, whence he nods / Man this or that -- and little more than man!
/ And shalt thou see Him individual? / Not till the freed intelligence hath sought / Ten hundred hundred years to rise and love, / Piercing the singing cycles under God, -- / Their iridescent evolutions orbed / In wild prismatic splendors, -- shall it see -- / Through God-propinquity become a god -- / See, lightening out of spheric harmonies, / Resplendencies of empyrean light, / Prisms and facets of ten million beams / Starring a crystal of berainbowed rays, / And in this -- eyes of burning sapphire, eyes / Deep as the music of the beautiful; / And o'er the eyes, limpid hierarchal brows, / As they were lilies of seraphic fire; / Lips underneath, of trembling ruby -- lips / Whose tongue's a chord, and every sound a song: / Cherubic faces of intensity / In multiplying myriads to a word / Forming the unit -- God; Supremity / Creative and ubiquitous.