| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 273. I Seek Thee in the Heart Alone |
| By Herbert Trench (b. 1865) |
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| FOUNTAIN of Fire whom all divide, | |
| We haste asunder like the spray | |
| But waneless doth Thy flame abide | |
| Whom every torch can take away! | |
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| I seek Thee in the heart alone, | 5 |
| I shall not find in hill or plain; | |
| Our rushing star must keep its moan, | |
| Our nightly soul its homeward pain. | |
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| Song out of thought, Light out of power, | |
| Even the consumings of this breast | 10 |
| Advance the clearness of that hour | |
| When all shall poise, and be at rest. | |
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| It cracks at last—the glowing sheath, | |
| The illusion, Personality; | |
| Absorbed and interwound with death | 15 |
| The myriads are dissolved in Thee. | |
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