There Is No Greater Clarity

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There is no greater clarity Than comes to one who knows The passions of a pilgrimage, The yearnings of a rose. One learns not from immensities, Nor reasons from the sea, But travels down a track of words To wordless ecstasy. Only in the palaces Of those who have endured The pain of their own cruelty Can power be secured. For love is but a garden weed That gathers in the gloom To choke the chosen with its seed, And dare the damned to bloom.