A Summoning

      To this true hand giant hearts come leaping
      For it upholds them in such gentle wrath
      As makes them beat with truer beating
      Until uneven pulses fountain only worth:
5     Which is what true hearts and friends together  do,
      Each the other chiding higher
      Until all of air beneath them blues
      And stars peep out beside them, wan and weak,
      And all the crucible world below seems and is
10    Shrunk to the simple dimension of a dish---
      Thus their flaming souls are brought to finest  light  
      That burns hottest in that dispersed place
      Empty of high substance but what high hearts have brought
      Giant out of themselves by giant wish.

 

From the collection "Ascent"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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