| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 130. Vesica Piscis |
| By Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896) |
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| IN strenuous hope I wrought, | |
| And hope seem’d still betray’d; | |
| Lastly I said, | |
| ‘I have labour’d through the Night, nor yet | |
| Have taken aught; | 5 |
| But at Thy word I will again cast forth the net!’ | |
| And, lo, I caught | |
| (Oh, quite unlike and quite beyond my thought,) | |
| Not the quick, shining harvest of the Sea, | |
| For food, my wish, | 10 |
| But Thee! | |
| Then, hiding even in me, | |
| As hid was Simon’s coin within the fish, | |
| Thou sigh’d’st, with joy, ‘Be dumb, | |
| Or speak but of forgotten things to far-off times to come.’ | 15 |
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