Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958)326. Art, the Herald
‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness’
B
What went ye out to seek, oh foolish-fond?
Is not the heart of all things here and now?
Is not the circle infinite, and the centre
Everywhere, if ye would but hear and enter?
Come; the porch bends and the great pillars bow
Come; come and see the secret of the sun;
The sorrow that holds the warring worlds in one;
The pain that holds Eternity in an hour;
One God in every seed self-sacrificed,
One star-eyed, star-crowned universal Christ,
Re-crucified in every wayside flower.