HEAVEN'S BLUE
by: Victor Rydberg (1828-1895)
 ONDERFUL
- Unfathomed clearness,
- O Heavenly azure,
- That, smiling,
- Descends to me,
- Lifting my soul
- To cool spaces
- And holy serenity!
- Enchanting Nirvana,
- Where, bathed in purity,
- I exhale myself
- In the infinite,
- And reborn
- In the next breath,
- Baptized in longing,
- Sink back
- To the dust of Earth.
--Translated from the Swedish by Ernest W.
Nelson
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"Heaven's Blue" is reprinted
from Poet Lore, Volume XXVII, Summer 1916, Number III. |
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