In the mind of god The dead sleeping lie And the little cogs though unmoving Hover over the turning wheel All life's a farce The broken bird is draped over the paths And paths and paths and paths And those who say this world is not The bloody gleaming paradise of blood and jewel Lie Opal and pearl bloodsocket castings Ruby jasmine jasper onyx Chalcedonthrone and ambergriscrown Golden green leafwork Scrolled with the farstars Pitted with the moonworlds Mother alldewey Arrayed with the twinkling lights The wovengold spungilded blinking godeyes The spearshafts of heaven The souldwelling rockhomes Are the holders of the world and its dreams I say there is no death No death We have lived before and shall live again And again We have slept before and shall sleep again We have danced through the shallow pools And shall rejoice once again To those who say there is no hope I say liars Liars Liars you are Over the starry dancing stars There is a land Under the sweatribbed brow There is a land And this is the globed world of the Pantocrator Finally I have understood I have understood I have understood Though when I slip sleeping and silently From this ribbed room of sighs You shall not find the history of His personal visit Sewn into my linings perhaps Nevertheless I have understood Where the logician watches god hinge all on a die Nevertheless: I have understood! That all this is the breathbetween moment Our eyelids open and close Between is the land Between the time I first was accepted In between Your brightboned body Between then and there and the time You wept: "Goodbye my love goodbye to you" Goodbye oh goodbye In the middle of the forest Actæon is slain by his own hounds In the middle of the forest Eustace meets the crisscross Stag There he was takencaught by the prey All the flowers are blossoming And all the world calls to you: "Dormition" -- so you sleep "Dominion" -- so he rules Dormition -- oh You sleep, Mother Dominion -- Father, You rule So: this Empire is nothing Before me the green fields are stretched out The broken body of a cat glows there And the shimmering flies fall This Empire is nothing I said: "I guess this isn't real" This Empire is not real I cannot hang words on the Silence Everywhere God's goldenlight S. said: "You have appeared to me for a reason" And I said to Her: "Who do You say I am?" Like One better before consider the lillies of the field consider the carnage and massacre consider the love and embraces consider the hangingred skies consider the love of your enemy consider the hatred of your friend there oh there there is the land all the musics shall combine and all the daughters are no longer brought low they are araised on brightfiregodgiven they rejoice and those who deny this world is the soul of the unbroken one lie this is indeed Paradise (come i shall show you where the stars give birth and sleep) and all around you is the warm bluegreen breath of heavens do not fear around you is the vast blueblack space of stars do not fear this is the great ocean on which the endless waves crash down God is not dead there is no death i say (come i shall show you where dreams go to when they die) hurry now; the sun is descending the shadows wait to play
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