October 1st entry From The Gardeners bed book by Richardson Wright

THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
Verses for a Night Walk.
Autumn brings me closer impacts with reality than any other season. The balmy airs of Spring and Summer breed in my mind only pretty pantheistic sentiments, but let a tang spill into the air, and my comfortable and easy-going soul is spurred on to great adventure. On nights such as these I disappear over the back wall and head across country. The stars are sharp and brittle. Odors of dying vegetation rise from the ground. I tramp on, searching for what Vaughan said he saw–
“I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great Ring of pure and endless light,
All calm as it was bright.”
And turning toward home, my feet slogging along a little slower, my head in the heavens, I wonder at Vaughan’s other verse–
“There is in God, so some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky because they
See not all clear.
O for that Night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim.”

– Posted from my iPhone