127. From ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens’ by Matthew Arnold. Nicholson & Lee, eds. 1917. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

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Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

127. From ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens’

By Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

CALM soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city’s jar,
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar!

The will to neither strive nor cry,	5
The power to feel with others give!
Calm, calm me more! nor let me die
Before I have begun to live.