Angels and Women (1924)

182 ANGELS AND WOMEN
dren. I paused not until I found myself beyond
the limits of the deserted city, and coming
upon an open plain, gazed long and earnestly
into the southern sky. By the tremor
that agitated my frame, by the increasing
luminosity of the dim stars, by a clearer
vision of the shrouded full-orbed moon, and
by the intensified quickening of every sense,
I was conscious of the superhuman power.
Then, in vision, I went out, past sun and
moon, past grand and solemn orbs, through
fields of drifting stars, out into cold and
darksome space, till I hung upon the verge
of God’s Infinity. I perceived the Invisible,
the Inaudible, the Intangible, that which unaided
mortal sense can never comprehend.
I looked upon the Energies of Nature!
Wheels within wheels, forever turning,
changing, returning. Impalpable resistance,
imponderable weight. Nor night nor discord,
age or death. Swift as thought, firm
as the will of God. There dwells Eternal
Order[ !
There dwells Eternal Noon