| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 197. Love’s Vision |
| By Edward Carpenter (b. 1844) |
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| AT 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, | 5 |
| Whom none who seeks after this or that, whom none who has not escaped from self. | |
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| 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. | 10 |
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