| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 326. Art, the Herald |
| By Alfred Noyes (b. 1880) |
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‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness’
BEYOND; beyond; and yet again beyond! | |
| What went ye out to seek, oh foolish-fond? | |
| Is not the heart of all things here and now? | |
| Is not the circle infinite, and the centre | |
| Everywhere, if ye would but hear and enter? | 5 |
| Come; the porch bends and the great pillars bow | |
| Come; come and see the secret of the sun; | |
| The sorrow that holds the warring worlds in one; | |
| The pain that holds Eternity in an hour; | |
| One God in every seed self-sacrificed, | 10 |
| One star-eyed, star-crowned universal Christ, | |
| Re-crucified in every wayside flower. | |
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