SO THIN A VEIL
by: Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
 O thin a veil divides
- Us from such joy, past words,
- Walking in daily life--the business of the hour, each detail
seen to;
- Yet carried, rapt away, on what sweet floods of other Being:
- Swift streams of music flowing, light far back through all
Creation shining,
- Loved faces looking--
- Ah! from the true, the mortal self
- So thin a veil divides!
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"So Thin a Veil" is reprinted
from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson
& Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917. |
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