The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

s:0 GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON “God Almighty, and with Him Cherubim andsSeraphim, ALEISTER CROWLEY The Quest "4 PART, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone a8 the void uncovered: ‘The silence of deep height was drawn A veil across the silver dawn ‘On holy wings that hovered + ‘The music of three thoughts became The beauty, that is one white lame, ‘The justice that surpasses shame, ‘The victory, the splendour, ‘The sacred fountain that is whitled From depths beyond that older world ‘A new world to engender.* ‘The kingdom is extended? Night Dwells, and I contemplate the sight ‘That is not seeing, but the light ‘That secretly is kindled, tatty th ide, tn its darkness the Light may set