Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Evelyn Underhill (18751941)318. Introversion
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What do you seek within?
I seek a Life that shall never die,
Some haven to win
From mortality.
What do you find within?
I find great quiet where no noises come.
Without, the world’s din:
Silence in my home.
Whom do you find within?
I find a friend that in secret came:
His scarred hands within
He shields a faint flame.
What would you do within?
Bar door and window that none may see:
That alone we may be
(Alone! face to face,
In that flame-lit place!)
When first we begin
To speak one with another.