The Angel and the Girl

The angel and the girl are met

Earth was the only meeting place.

For the embodied never yet

Travelled beyond the shore of space.

The eternal spirits in freedom go.

See, they have come together, see,

While the destroying minutes flow,

Each reflects the other's face

Till heaven in hers and earth in his

Shine steady there. He's come to her

From far beyond the farthest star,

Feathered through time. Immediacy

Of strangest strangeness is the bliss

That from their limbs all movement takes.

Yet the increasing rapture brings

So great a wonder that it makess

Each feather tremble on his wings

Outside the window footsteps fall

Into the ordinary day

And with the sun along the wall

Pursue their unreturning way

Sound's perpetual roundabout

Rolls its numbered octaves out

And hoarsely grinds its battered tune

But through the endless afternoon

These neither speak nor movement make.

But stare into their deepening trance

As if their grace would never break.