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Bared with a stab of flame the closed Beyond. An eye awake in voiceless heights of trance, A mind plucking at the unimaginable, Overleaping with a sole and perilous bound The high black wall hiding superconscience, She broke in with inspired speech for scythe And plundered the Unknowable's vast estate. A gleaner of infinitesimal grains of Truth, A sheaf-binder of infinite experience, She pierced the guarded mysteries of World-Force And her magic methods wrapped in a thousand veils; Or she gathered the lost secrets dropped by Time In the dust and crannies of his mounting route Mid old forsaken dreams of hastening Mind And buried remnants of forgotten space. A traveller between summit and abyss, She joined the distant ends, the viewless deeps, Or streaked along the roads of Heaven and Hell Pursuing all knowledge like a questing hound. A reporter and scribe of hidden wisdom talk, Her shining minutes of celestial speech, Passed through the masked office of the occult mind, Transmitting gave to prophet and to seer The inspired body of the mystic Truth. A recorder of the inquiry of the gods, Spokesman of the silent seeings of the Supreme, She brought immortal words to mortal men. Above the reason's brilliant slender curve, Released like radiant air dimming a moon, Broad spaces of a vision without line Or limit swam into his spirit's ken. Oceans of being met his voyaging soul Calling to infinite discovery; Timeless domains of joy and absolute power Stretched out surrounded by the eternal hush; The ways that lead to endless happiness 
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