199. So Thin a Veil by Edward Carpenter. Nicholson & Lee, eds. 1917. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

199. So Thin a Veil

By Edward Carpenter (b. 1844)

SO thin a veil divides
Us from such joy, past words,
Walking in daily life—the business of the hour, each detail seen to;
Yet carried, rapt away, on what sweet floods of other Being:
Swift streams of music flowing, light far back through all Creation shining,	5
Loved faces looking—
Ah! from the true, the mortal self
So thin a veil divides!