THE ETERNAL LAUGHTER
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Lo, there came a dream of wonder:— Beyond the calling wind I sped, Through space from which all light had fled I passed from earth and life asunder. Alone, in the eternal vastness, I floated from the cloud of time, Till, in that mystic space sublime, It faded in a distant fastness. When, from the gray heaven afar, Thou deep eternal King of all, Thy words unmasked,—to me Thy call Sounded o’er path of sun and star. Then, veiléd in mysterious spell, It seemed Thy thought grew clear to me. It seemed, ah God, I laughed with Thee, Father, I knew Thee then so well.
