LOVE'S VISION

by: Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)

      T night in each other’s arms,
      Content, overjoyed, resting deep deep down in the darkness,
      Lo! the heavens opened and He appeared--
      Whom no mortal eye may see,
      Whom no eye clouded with Care,
      Whom none who seeks after this or that, whom none who has not escaped from self.

      There--in the region of Equality, in the world of Freedom no longer limited,
      Standing as a lofty peak in heaven above the clouds,
      From below hidden, yet to all who pass into that region most clearly visible--
      He the Eternal appeared.

"Love's Vision" is reprinted from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917.

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