Early successes, Creation’s favourite ones,
mountain-chains, ridges reddened by dawns
of all origin – pollen of flowering godhead,
junctions of light,
corridors, stairs,
thrones,
spaces of being, shields of bliss, tempests
of storm-filled,
delighted feeling and, suddenly,
solitary mirrors
gathering their own out-streamed beauty
back into their faces again.
R. M. Rilke, Duino Elegies