| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 174. From ‘The City of Dream’ |
| By Robert Buchanan (1841–1901) |
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| THE WOOF that I weave not | |
| Thou wearest and weavest, | |
| The Thought I conceive not | |
| Thou darkly conceivest; | |
| The wind and the rain, | 5 |
| The night and the morrow, | |
| The rapture of pain | |
| Fading slowly to sorrow, | |
| The dream and the deed, | |
| The calm and the storm, | 10 |
| The flower and the seed, | |
| Are thy Thought and thy Form. | |
| I die, yet depart not, | |
| I am bound, yet soar free, | |
| Thou art and thou art not, | 15 |
| And ever shalt be! | |
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