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1917 · PDF PAGE 3

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

…as wrought its splendour through the gates of death, ‘My courage did not falter: now I feel My heart beat wave-wise, and my throat catch breath Asif [choked; some horror creeps between ‘The spirit of my will and its desire, Some just reluctance to the Great Unseen ‘That coils its nameless terrors, and its dit Fear round my heart ; a devil cold as ice Breathes somewhere, for I feel his shudder take ‘My veins: some deadlier asp or cockatrice Slimes in my senses : T am half awake, ‘Half automatic, as I move along Wrappedin a cloud of blackness dee…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 4

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

… ihe Was not the Sun: my life has been the death, ‘This death may be the life: my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air; I know, Tinowit in my soul, despite of thi ‘The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a kis, ‘This horror of great darkness. Iam come Into this darkness to attain the light: ‘To gain my voice I make myself as dumb: ‘That I may see I close my outer sight: So, Lam here. My brows are bent in prayer: Vineel already in the Gates of Dawn; And I am com…

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