FWIW, "enter to" didn't bother me. I guess I'm thinking of it as a syntactical mix of "enter to a round of applause" and "wake to a winter wonderland".
I can't speak for Carl, but the reason I'm missing some form of punctuation before the final "brilliant, eternal" is that the context makes me see those two adjectives as modifying "these," interrupted by parenthetical remarks that should each be set off by commas. Without punctuation, my first instinct is to try to make them modify "ardent spirit," which doesn't seem right.
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