| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 234. The Idea |
| By Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (Robinson-Darmesteter) (b. 1857) |
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| BENEATH this world of stars and flowers | |
| That rolls in visible deity, | |
| I dream another world is ours | |
| And is the soul of all we see. | |
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| It hath no form, it hath no spirit; | 5 |
| It is perchance the Eternal Mind; | |
| Beyond the sense that we inherit | |
| I feel it dim and undefined. | |
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| How far below the depth of being, | |
| How wide beyond the starry bound | 10 |
| It rolls unconscious and unseeing, | |
| And is as Number or as Sound. | |
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| And through the vast fantastic visions | |
| Of all this actual universe, | |
| It moves unswerved by our decisions, | 15 |
| And is the play that we rehearse. | |
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