| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 266. The Beloved |
| By Katherine Tynan Hinkson (b. 1861) |
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| BLOW gently over my garden, | |
| Wind of the Southern sea, | |
| In the hour that my Love cometh | |
| And calleth me! | |
| My Love shall entreat me sweetly, | 5 |
| With voice like the wood-pigeon; | |
| ‘I am here at the gate of thy garden, | |
| Here in the dawn.’ | |
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| Then I shall rise up swiftly | |
| All in the rose and grey, | 10 |
| And open the gate to my Lover | |
| At dawning of day. | |
| He hath crowns of pain on His forehead, | |
| And wounds in His hands and feet; | |
| But here mid the dews of my garden | 15 |
| His rest shall be sweet. | |
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| Then blow not out of your forests, | |
| Wind of the icy North; | |
| But Wind of the South that is healing | |
| Rise and come forth! | 20 |
| And shed your musk and your honey, | |
| And spill your odours of spice, | |
| For one who forsook for my garden | |
| His Paradise! | |
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