Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
118. Whom We Worship
I
The ancient ways of love:
But in my heart I built a Paradise,
A nest there for the dove.
The gate I held apart:
And all without was shadow, but I knew
The bird within my heart.
The voice I loved so long
Seemed only the dream echo faint and sweet
Of a far sweeter song.
Of Thee and Me therein;
And with white heat I strove the veil to melt
That love to love might win.
Not to be lost in thee,
But with the high ancestral love to dwell
In its lone ecstasy.