Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
A. E. (George William Russell) (18671935)294. Unity
O
One thought has haunted earth and air:
Clangour and silence both have been
Its palace chambers. Everywhere
And live in men and woods and streams,
Until I could no longer know
The stream of life from my own dreams.
Within the depths of my own mind,
And spreading to infinity,
It took the voices of the wind:
Dim heraldry—on light and air;
Wavering along the starry sea
I saw the flying vision there.
Burns fierce before the inner shrine,
Dimmed as my fire grew near to it.
And darkened at the light of mine.
The spirit wears its diadem;
It shakes its wondrous plumes of thought
And trails the stars along with them.