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

By David Macdonald Ross

72 . The Dreamer

WHO seeks the shore where dreams outpour

Their floods in Slumber Seas

Lives all night long within a song

Of murmuring mysteries.

Where stars are lit above the pit

That holds the hollow dark,

Into their dawn he shall sail on

In an enchanted barque.

He shall not fear tho’ in his ear

The thrusting cranks of Time,

Thro’ blaze and gloom, with crash and boom,

Ring in tremendous rhyme,

Beyond the cloud that doth enshroud

Saturn with beauteous bands,

Where at the knees of Hyades

Creation claps her hands.

He shall bow low to God and know

Keen sorrow and delight,

The day’s full pride and eventide,

The inmost thoughts of night.

Into their calm white waves of balm

His soul shall plunge and swim,

Past silver-globed full moons unrobed

That float round Heaven’s rim.

He shall bow low to God and know

God, and be known of Him;

He shall surprise within the skies

The watching Seraphim.

He shall be known about the Throne

When names are named above,

As one redeemed through dreams he dreamed—

As one Beloved of Love.