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

Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (1807–1886)

87. ‘If there had anywhere’

IF there had anywhere appeared in space

Another place of refuge, where to flee,

Our hearts had taken refuge in that place,

And not with Thee.

For we against creation’s bars had beat

Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought

Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,

Where Thou wert not.

And only when we found in earth and air,

In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be—

That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,

We fled to Thee.