Songs and Sonnets (Coleman)/Beyond the Violet Rays

by Helena Jane Coleman

BEYOND THE VIOLET RAYS.

 

Beyond the violet rays we do not know
What colors lie, what fields of light abound,
Or what undreamed effulgence may surround
Our dreaming consciousness above, below;
Nor is it far that finite sense can go
Along the subtle passages of sound,
The finer tonal waves are too profound
For mortal ears to catch their ebb and flow.

And there are moments when upon us steal
Monitions of far wider realms that lie
Beyond our spirit borders, and we feel
That fine, ethereal joys we cannot name.
In some vast orbit circling, sweeping by,
Touch us in passing as with wings of flame.