AS LIGHT LEAPS UP

As light leaps up from star to star, so mounts

Faith from one soul unto another; so

The lower to the higher; till the flow

Of knowledge rises from creation's founts;

Until from human love we come to know

The august presence of the Love Divine;

And feel the light unutterable shine

Upon half-lights that we were wont to show,

Absorbing them.‘ Tis Love that beckons us

From low desires, from restlessness and sin,

To heights that else we had not reached; and thus

We find the Heaven we dared not hope to win.

How clearer seem designs immortal when

Our lives are fed on Love's fine regimen