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The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

… Toward the calm centre of the sea, (O thou supernal mother !*) ‘The triple light my path divides ‘To twain and fifty sudden sides* Each perfect as each other. Now backwards, inwards still my mind Mast track the intangible and blind, ‘And seeking, shall securely find Hidden in secret places Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, New life for many mystic lives, ‘And strange new forms and faces. ‘My mind still searches, and attains By many days and many pains To That which Is and Was and reigns ‘Shadowed in four and ten ;# ‘And loses self in s…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 5

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

…nge archipelagoes Of fallen stars; where fiery passion flows A curious bitumen; where among ‘The glowing medley moved the tune unsung Of perfect love: thence grew the Mystic Rose. Its myriad petals of divided light; Tits leaves of the most radiant emerald ; Tes heart of fire like rubies. At the sight Tiifted up my heart to God and called: How shall I pluck this dream of my desire ? And lo! there shaped itself the Cross of EVELYN UNDERHILL (MRS. STUART MOORE) bats

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