CALM SOUL OF ALL THINGS

From "Lines Written in Kensington Gardens"

by: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

      ALM soul of all things! make it mine
      To feel, amid the city’s jar,
      That there abides a peace of thine,
      Man did not make, and cannot mar!
       
      The will to neither strive nor cry,
      The power to feel with others give!
      Calm, calm me more! nor let me die
      Before I have begun to live.

"Calm Soul of All Things" is reprinted from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. D.H.S. Nicholson. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917.

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