| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 277. Indian Meditation |
| By Arthur Symons (b. 1865) |
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| WHERE shall this self at last find happiness? | |
| O Soul, only in nothingness. | |
| Does not the Earth suffice to its own needs? | |
| And what am I but one of the Earth’s weeds? | |
| All things have been and all things shall go on | 5 |
| Before me and when I am gone; | |
| This self that cries out for eternity | |
| Is what shall pass in me: | |
| The tree remains, the leaf falls from the tree. | |
| I would be as the leaf, I would be lost | 10 |
| In the identity and death of frost, | |
| Rather than draw the sap of the tree’s strength | |
| And for the tree’s sake be cast off at length. | |
| To be is homage unto being; cease | |
| To be, and be at peace, | 15 |
| If it be peace for self to have forgot | |
| Even that it is not. | |
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