Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Arthur Symons (18651945)278. The Turning Dervish
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I worship like a star,
And in its footsteps learn
Where peace and wisdom are.
Till dust with dust he lies,
A crooked line he scrawls
Between the earth and skies.
The course of star and sun,
No creature hath constrained
A meaner course to run.
Imaging his design,
Have diligently wrought
Motion to be divine.
Dizzied with waves of air,
Spins to a point intense,
And spires and centres there.
I drink that flaming peace,
Which in the heavens doth feed
The stars with bright increase.
Through ways of light untrod,
Till, with excessive love,
I drown, and am in God.