Art, The Herald

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"The voice of one crying in the wilderness"

  I

  Beyond; beyond; and yet again beyond!
  What went ye out to seek, oh foolish-fond?
  Is not the heart of all things here and now?
  Is not the circle infinite, and the centre
  Everywhere, if ye would but hear and enter?
  Come; the porch bends and the great pillars bow.

  II

  Come; come and see the secret of the sun;
  The sorrow that holds the warring worlds in one;
  The pain that holds Eternity in an hour;
  One God in every seed self-sacrificed,
  One star-eyed, star-crowned universal Christ,
  Re-crucified in every wayside flower.

© Alfred Noyes