| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 299. One and All |
| By Jane Barlow (b. 1857) |
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| O’ER boundless fields of night, lo, near and far | |
| Light, dewdrop’s blink, and Light, Aeonian star. | |
| Wan wraiths that flickering roam by marish ways; | |
| Fierce surge of levin-bright foam where oceans blaze— | |
| Fly’s spark and flame gulfs dire, your fount is one, | 5 |
| Deep in the worlds’ arch-fire of all suns’ Sun. | |
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| A burning seed of strife Fate strews, and so | |
| Life, men’s grudged dole, and Life, gods’ feast aglow. | |
| Clod’s captive, senses’ thrall, oft grieved, soon slain; | |
| Immortal, glad o’er all to range and reign— | 10 |
| Frail breath, and spirit eterne, beyond thought’s seeing | |
| Ye touch for one sole bourne all being’s Being. | |
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