| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 100. Trimurti |
| By John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895) |
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| TRIMURTI, Trimurti, | |
| Despise not the name; | |
| Think and know | |
| Before thou blame! | |
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| Look upon the face of Nature | 5 |
| In the flush of June; | |
| BRAHMA is the great Creator, | |
| Life is Brahma’s boon. | |
| Dost thou hear the zephyr blowing? | |
| That is Brahma’s breath, | 10 |
| Vital breath, live virtue showing | |
| ’Neath the ribs of death. | |
| Dost thou see the fountain flowing? | |
| That is Brahma’s blood, | |
| Lucid blood—the same is glowing | 15 |
| In the purpling bud. | |
| Brahma’s Eyes look forth divining | |
| From the welkin’s brow, | |
| Full bright eyes—the same are shining | |
| In the sacred cow. | 20 |
| Air, and Fire, and running River, | |
| And the procreant clod, | |
| Are but faces changing ever | |
| Of one changeless God. | |
| When thy wingèd thought ascendeth | 25 |
| Where high thoughts are free, | |
| This is Brahma when he lendeth | |
| Half the God to thee. | |
| Brahma is the great Creator, | |
| Life a mystic drama; | 30 |
| Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature | |
| Are but masks of Brahma. | |
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