| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 322. Emanation |
| By Ella Dietz |
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| OUT of the depths of the Infinite Being eternal, | |
| Out of the cloud more bright than the brightness of sun, | |
| Out of the inmost the essence of spirit supernal, | |
| We issued as one. | |
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| First essence electric, concentric, revolving, subduing, | 5 |
| We throbbed through the ether, a part of the infinite germ, | |
| Dissolving, resolving, absorbing, reforming, renewing, | |
| The endless in term. | |
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| Through forms multifarious onward and ever advancing, | |
| Progressing through ether from molecule to planet and star, | 10 |
| Forms infinitesimal revealed by the sunbeam while dancing, | |
| Controlled from afar. | |
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| Then part of the elements swayed by invisible forces, | |
| The spirit of flame interchangeably water and air, | |
| And matter more gross, still moulded by stars in their courses, | 15 |
| To forms new and rare. | |
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| Part of the salt of the sea—of the fathomless ocean— | |
| Part of the growth of the earth, and the light hid within, | |
| The Boundless and Endless revealed in each varying motion | |
| Unknown yet to sin. | 20 |
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| The breath of all life, harmonious, ductile, complying, | |
| Obedient lapsed in the force of the Infinite Will, | |
| Untiring, unresting, incessant, unknowing, undying, | |
| Love’s law we fulfil. | |
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| Spirit of growth in the rocks, and the ferns, and the mosses, | 25 |
| Spirit of growth in the trees, and the grasses, and flowers, | |
| Rejoicing in life, unconscious of changes or losses, | |
| Of days or of hours. | |
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| Spirit of growth in the bird and the bee, ever tending | |
| To form more complex its beauty and use thus combined, | 30 |
| Adapted perfection, the finite and infinite blending, | |
| One gleam from One Mind. | |
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| Thus spirally upward we come from the depths of creation, | |
| The man and the woman—the garden of Eden have found, | |
| And joined by the Lord in an endless and holy relation | 35 |
| Ensphered and made round. | |
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| The innermost law of their being fulfilling, obeying, | |
| The King and the Queen, perfected, companioned, are crowned, | |
| The Incomprehensible thus in expression conveying | |
| Its ultimate bound. | 40 |
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| Obedience still is the law of each fresh emanation, | |
| The prayer to the Father, ‘Not my will, but Thy will be done,’ | |
| Then deathless, immortal, we pass through all forms of creation, | |
| The twain lost in One. | |
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