Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892)93. The Higher Pantheism
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Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns?
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him?
For is He not all but thou, that hast power to feel ‘I am I’?
Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour and gloom.
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice.
For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool;
But if we could see and hear, this Vision—were it not He?