Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
By David Macdonald Ross72 . The Dreamer
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Their floods in Slumber Seas
Lives all night long within a song
Of murmuring mysteries.
That holds the hollow dark,
Into their dawn he shall sail on
In an enchanted barque.
The thrusting cranks of Time,
Thro’ blaze and gloom, with crash and boom,
Ring in tremendous rhyme,
Saturn with beauteous bands,
Where at the knees of Hyades
Creation claps her hands.
Keen sorrow and delight,
The day’s full pride and eventide,
The inmost thoughts of night.
His soul shall plunge and swim,
Past silver-globed full moons unrobed
That float round Heaven’s rim.
God, and be known of Him;
He shall surprise within the skies
The watching Seraphim.
When names are named above,
As one redeemed through dreams he dreamed—
As one Beloved of Love.