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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1932

. . . Yet I have known the Sun

. . . Yet I have known the Sun

So little done, so little made.
And I must die and be a shade.
So little done, so little made
And even now my beauties fade.
So little done, so much desired,
So sadly known my talents hired.
So little done, though each hour filled
And almost now my voice is stilled.
So little made, so little done ....
Yet .... deeply I have drunk the Sun.
My body he has blessed and fed ....
Thank God for that when I am dead.
The Sun! His gorgeous benison
My body knew. And that is one
With my soul's beauty, like a flower
Whose petals praise him every hour.
So little made, so little done . . . .
But . . . . I have drunken of the Sun.
No beauty that was offered me
But I have sipped in ecstasy.
So little made, so little done . . . .
What matter! I have known the Sun!
Each minute has its offering laid
Of Beaut, and my soul has prayed.
While other fools have hurried by
Unclamouring loveliness, my eye
Has worshipped and has praised and known
Each smallest thing of Beauty grown.

—C.