| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 205. Christ and the Pagan |
| By John Bannister Tabb (1845–1909) |
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| I HAD no God but these, | |
| The sacerdotal Trees, | |
| And they uplifted me. | |
| ‘I hung upon a Tree.’ | |
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| The sun and moon I saw, | 5 |
| And reverential awe | |
| Subdued me day and night. | |
| ‘I am the perfect Light.’ | |
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| Within a lifeless Stone— | |
| All other gods unknown— | 10 |
| I sought Divinity. | |
| ‘The Corner-Stone am I.’ | |
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| For sacrificial feast, | |
| I slaughtered man and beast, | |
| Red recompense to gain. | 15 |
| ‘So I, a Lamb, was slain. | |
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| ‘Yea; such My hungering Grace | |
| That wheresoe’er My face | |
| Is hidden, none may grope | |
| Beyond eternal Hope.’ | 20 |
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