"Heaven" has dIfferent Signs - to me -

HEAVEN has different signs to me;

Sometimes I think that noon

Is but a symbol of the place,

And when again at dawn

A mighty look runs round the world

And settles in the hills,

An awe if it should be like that

Upon the ignorance steals.

The orchard when the sun is on;

The triumph of the birds

When they together victory make;

Some carnivals of clouds—

The rapture of concluded day

Returning to the West,—

All these remind us of the place

That men call "Paradise."

Itself a fairer we suppose,

But how ourself shall be

Adorned for a superior grace,

Not yet our eyes can see.

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