Chapter 1Ocean Oneness

Poems in Quantitative Metres Ocean Oneness1 Silence is round me, wideness ineffable; White birds on the ocean diving and wandering; A soundless sea on a voiceless heaven, Azure on azure, is mutely gazing. Identified with silence and boundlessness My spirit widens clasping the universe Till all that seemed becomes the Real, One in a mighty and single vastness. Someone broods there nameless and bodiless, Conscious and lonely, deathless and infinite, And, sole in a still eternal rapture, Gathers all things to his heart for ever. 1 Alcaics. Modulations are allowed, trochee or iamb in the first foot or a long mono- syllable; an occasional anapaest in place of an iamb is permitted; an antibacchius can replace a dactyl.