| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 261. To a Daisy |
| By Alice Meynell (b. 1847) |
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| SLIGHT as thou art, thou art enough to hide, | |
| Like all created things, secrets from me, | |
| And stand a barrier to eternity. | |
| And I, how can I praise thee well and wide | |
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| From where I dwell—upon the hither side? | 5 |
| Thou little veil for so great mystery, | |
| When shall I penetrate all things and thee, | |
| And then look back? For this I must abide, | |
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| Till thou shalt grow and fold and be unfurled | |
| Literally between me and the world. | 10 |
| Then shall I drink from in beneath a spring, | |
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| And from a poet’s side shall read his book. | |
| O daisy mine, what will it be to look | |
| From God’s side even of such a simple thing? | |
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