| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 166. Adventante Deo |
| By John Addington Symonds (1840–1893) |
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| LIFT up your heads, gates of my heart, unfold | |
| Your portals to salute the King of kings! | |
| Behold Him come, borne on cherubic wings | |
| Engrained with crimson eyes and grail of gold! | |
| Before His path the thunder-clouds withhold | 5 |
| Their stormy pinions, and the desert sings: | |
| He from His lips divine and forehead flings | |
| Sunlight of peace unfathomed, bliss untold. | |
| O soul, faint soul, disquieted how long! | |
| Lift up thine eyes, for lo, thy Lord is near, | 10 |
| Lord of all loveliness and strength and song, | |
| The Lord who brings heart-sadness better cheer, | |
| Scattering those midnight dreams that dote on wrong, | |
| Purging with heaven’s pure rays love’s atmosphere! | |
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