United and Absorbed

So rests the sky against the earth. The dark, still lake in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still, high light of the morning.

I feel an ache of longing to share in this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire...Content? No, no, no—but refreshed, rested—while waiting.

Dag Hammarskjöld, Vägmärken (Markings), translated by W.H. Auden (1964), p. 77.

Quoted in: https://books.google.com/books?id=Rh4FompyKiAC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA6

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