CHALICE

Chalice of my communion

        With the lost thing that gleams!

Communion‑bond of union

        Between me and my dreams!

O chalice of love's most!

In thy wine, earth's wine's ghost

        To lips that are God's flowers,

My soul has dipped the host

        Of my diviner hours.

My lips are as lips kissed.

        My sad soul happy sings.

O shining through the mist

        Of tremulous angels' wings!

I feel me God's moon's node,

A child again, outside life's road,

        Remembering how I found me

When I awoke from God

        And felt the world around me.