| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 282. Anima Naturae |
| By Walter Leslie Wilmshurst (b. 1866) |
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| SWIRL of the river aflow to the sea, | |
| Aspen a-quiver all tremulously, | |
| Skylark that shivereth song o’er the lea, | |
| Shaft of the sun; | |
| Snowflakes that sprinkle the wind-bitten wold, | 5 |
| Fireflies that twinkle with shimmer of gold, | |
| Wavelets that wrinkle the sands where ye rolled, | |
| Rivulet’s ripple and run; MYST. | |
| Lone mountain-meres that are silently dreaming | |
| Of far-flashing spheres that enmirrored are beaming, | 10 |
| Clouds’ crystal tears when the rainbow is gleaming, | |
| I, also a son | |
| Of the Mother, inherit the soul of her infinite throng, | |
| See it and hear it my paths all about and among, | |
| Throb with your spirit and sing with the manifold song | 15 |
| Of the infinite, manifold One. | |
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