Religion
Love's Vision
From The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917)
All night in each other's arms,
Content, overjoyed, resting deep deep down in the darkness,
Lo! the heavens opened and He appeared —
Whom no mortal eye may see,
Whom no eye clouded with Care,
Whom none who seeks after this or that, whom none who has not escaped from self.
There — in the region of Equality, in the world of
Freedom no longer limited,
Standing as a lofty peak in heaven above the clouds,
From below hidden, yet to all who pass into that region most clearly visible —
He the Eternal appeared.
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MLA
Carpenter, Edward. “Love's Vision.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carpenter_e/1/.
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Carpenter, Edward. “Love's Vision.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carpenter_e/1/.
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