| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 40. The Dwelling-place |
| By Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
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| WHAT happy, secret fountain, | |
| Fair shade, or mountain, | |
| Whose undiscover’d virgin glory | |
| Boasts it this day, though not in story, | |
| Was then thy dwelling? did some cloud | 5 |
| Fix’d to a Tent, descend and shrowd | |
| My distrest Lord? or did a star, | |
| Becken’d by thee, though high and far, | |
| In sparkling smiles haste gladly down | |
| To lodge light, and increase her own? | 10 |
| My dear, dear God! I do not know | |
| What lodgd thee then, nor where, nor how; | |
| But I am sure, thou dost now come | |
| Oft to a narrow, homely room, | |
| Where thou too hast but the least part, | 15 |
| My God, I mean my sinful heart. | |
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