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Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

John Charles Earle (b. 1850)

303. Onward and Upward

I PASS the vale. I breast the steep.

I bear the cross: the cross bears me.

Light leads me on to light. I weep

For joy at what I hope to see

When, scaled at last the arduous height,

For every painful step I trod,

I traverse worlds on worlds of light,

And pierce some deeper depth of God.