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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

51. Divine Visitation

THE HEAVENS lay hold on us: the starry rays

Fondle with flickering fingers brow and eyes:

A new enchantment lights the ancient skies.

What is it looks between us gaze on gaze;

Does the wild spirit of the endless days

Chase through my heart some lure that ever flies?

Only I know the vast within me cries

Finding in thee the ending of all ways.

Ah, but they vanish; the immortal train

From thee, from me, depart, yet take from thee

Memorial grace: laden with adoration

Forth from this heart they flow that all in vain

Would stay the proud eternal powers that flee

After the chase in burning exultation.