Unity

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2 id="id00357" style="margin-top: 4em">UNITY</h2> <p id="id00358" style="margin-top: 2em">I dreamed that life and time and space were one,<br/> And the pure trance of dawn;<br/> The increase drawn<br/> From all the journeys of the travelling sun,<br/> And the long mysteries of sound and sight,<br/> The whispering rains,<br/> And far, calm waters set in lonely plains,<br/> And cry of birds at night.<br/></p> <p id="id00359">I dreamed that these and love and death were one,<br/> And all eternity,<br/> The life to be<br/> Therewith entwined, throughout the ages spun;<br/> And so with Grief, my playmate; him I knew<br/> One with the rest,—<br/> One with the mounting day, the east and west—<br/> Lord, is it true?<br/> Lord, do I dream? Methinks a key unlocks<br/> Some dungeon door, in thrall of blackened towers,<br/> On ecstasies, half hid, like chill white flowers<br/> Blown in the secret places of the rocks.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />