Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892)95. From In Memoriam
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So far, so near in woe and weal;
O loved the most, when most I feel
There is a lower and a higher;
Sweet human hand and lips and eye;
Dear heavenly friend that canst not die,
Mine, mine, for ever, ever mine;
Loved deeplier, darklier understood;
Behold, I dream a dream of good,
And mingle all the world with thee.
Thy voice is on the rolling air;
I hear thee where the waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in the setting thou art fair.
But tho’ I seem in star and flower
To feel thee some diffusive power,
I do not therefore love thee less:
My love is vaster passion now;
Tho’ mix’d with God and Nature thou,
I seem to love thee more and more.
I have thee still, and I rejoice;
I prosper, circled with thy voice;
I shall not lose thee tho’ I die.
O living will that shalt endure
When all that seems shall suffer shock,
Rise in the spiritual rock,
Flow thro’ our deeds and make them pure,
A voice as unto him that hears,
A cry above the conquer’d years
To one that with us works, and trust,
The truths that never can be proved
Until we close with all we loved
And all we flow from, soul in soul.