‘«,'< ^7 Rudolph ScbirmernChesterton ^ ” ‘• ‘-‘•’n”.«’ < IV ‘ :^’* ”^nCombustion — Lord, how it delights andnCherubic rose with papal crimson blent’nfires, *.’nf Surprises too, for I had not supposednMy own incorporation possiblenIn this candescent metamorphosis,ni^nA never willed or even fancied end—nExcept for heretics, with whom. Lord knows,n^ “”””nI broke some lances past and still will break ^ ,. ,’_!?nAll future spears until the bond is forgednThat rings, us all, and ringing, liberates.n'” <” “•””n” Crowned came I, and more crested will depart,nKeeping the splendor only, not the dross.n#n.# V Now some will say it serves me right to burn,nBut I instead believe it does me good.n, ^ *?nMy wits are crisping as my body roasts, ,’ ,^^nMy vision sharpening. So I detect c !».nA round of novelties, goodly to spot, ,nRed-hot, amid the trivial and base ^^ f,- – ‘* ,^nFamiliarities — spirits, God-lit,nWho seem to see at last and share with menThe meaning of the morning. Goodbye, shell!nIt could not be forever that we clung.nThough life itself depended on our clinging.nFor we are bound to journey and adjourn,nTo forge acquaintance into memorynAnd go our ways forgetting till we waken^vnJ ^ And in one huge remembering recalln) ^, Ourselves, our God, our promise and our prizen, ^’nAdventure was the pristine point for me:nRisking to find, and finding, to embrace.n4.nsi,^* – ^”^”i’nI fought the groove and galloped from the lull, ? ^”^ ^ ‘!l^A’n’-{nlnRejoiced in jolts and revelled in suspense.nAnd now I take my way from star to star f, ^n’in^’infni’inTo points removed, to wrestle there as here “^ l ?^inWith demons on the march or ofi the slynWho would prevent my sighting of the soulnAnd clasping of all sundered to my breast.n^^ ^ 5»5i|jn^% 1nsf -‘/ ,; As rosiness engulfs me I confessnI am on fire with curiosity, .nAs .eager as a petal to unfoldn'”‘• ” •” And taste the air of Heaven as conceived.nTo feel the synthesis of opposites,ni. The transformation of abuse, and knownWhat I had heretofore imagined only:nGod and Man are one but separaten’ ^^*”n’* Until the blazing tryst that girdles all.nrnnnwn<n^/nt”n'”Sn4n”Lin’??n’i ^1n^^nJn^ ^ • ^n• ^ ^ • ^nj’^f”n,!,Snilnf^n-Vn”n’,.’5nio.’^ -n^Js^n^inI ^ ^-i^r .#, ^ .mir ‘i’»nJj4i,nffinJANUARY 1989/19n/•In