HEAVEN'S BLUE

by: Victor Rydberg (1828-1895)

WONDERFUL
Unfathomed clearness,
O Heavenly azure,
That, smiling,
Descends to me,
Lifting my soul
To cool spaces
And holy serenity!
Enchanting Nirvana,
Where, bathed in purity,
I exhale myself
In the infinite,
And reborn
In the next breath,
Baptized in longing,
Sink back
To the dust of Earth.



--Translated from the Swedish by Ernest W. Nelson