| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 330. The Immortal Hour |
| By Rachel Annand Taylor (b. 1876) |
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| STILL as great waters lying in the West, | |
| So is my spirit still. | |
| I lay my folded hands within Thy breast, | |
| My will within Thy will. | |
| O Fortune, idle pedlar, pass me by. | 5 |
| O Death, keep far from me who cannot die. | |
| The passion-flowers are lacing o’er the sill | |
| Of my low door.—As dews their sweetness fill, | |
| So do I rest in Thee. | |
| It is mine hour. Let none set foot therein. | 10 |
| It is mine hour unflawed of pain or sin. | |
| ’Tis laid and steeped in silence, till it be | |
| A solemn dazzling crystal, to outlast | |
| And storm the eyes of poets when long-past | |
| Is all the changing dream of Thee and Me. | 15 |
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