Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Henry Vaughan (16211695)34. The Search
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Who Pores
and spies
Still out of Doores,
descries
Within them nought.
Though faire,
are not
Thy wish, nor pray’r,
but got
By meer Despair
of wings.
or Dust
and say
Sure here he must
needs stay,
Is not the way,
nor just.
Search well another world; who studies this,
Travels in Clouds, seeks Manna, where none is.