| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 338. Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| By Michael Field |
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| BUT 1 so deep the wild-bee hummeth, | |
| And so still the glow-worm glows, | |
| That we know a Saviour cometh, | |
| And we lay our hearts with those— | |
| All the mysteries earth strives with through the June nights and the rose. | 5 |
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| Strange the joy that sets us weeping— | |
| Holy John, thy Feast is come! | |
| Yea, we feel a Babe is leaping | |
| In the womb where he is dumb | |
| To the song that God’s own Mother sings so loud to Christendom. | 10 |
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| High that singing, high and humble! | |
| Lo, our Queen is taking rule: | |
| Faint midsummer thunders rumble, | |
| And gold lilies light the pool, | |
| While the generations whisper that a Queen is taking rule. | 15 |
| Note 1. i.e. Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1913) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1914). [back] |
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