| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 318. Introversion |
| By Evelyn Underhill (Mrs. Stuart Moore) (b. 1875) |
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| WHAT do you seek within, O Soul, my Brother? | |
| What do you seek within? | |
| I seek a Life that shall never die, | |
| Some haven to win | |
| From mortality. | 5 |
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| What do you find within, O Soul, my Brother? | |
| What do you find within? | |
| I find great quiet where no noises come. | |
| Without, the world’s din: | |
| Silence in my home. | 10 |
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| Whom do you find within, O Soul, my Brother? | |
| Whom do you find within? | |
| I find a friend that in secret came: | |
| His scarred hands within | |
| He shields a faint flame. | 15 |
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| What would you do within, O Soul, my Brother? | |
| What would you do within? | |
| Bar door and window that none may see: | |
| That alone we may be | |
| (Alone! face to face, | 20 |
| In that flame-lit place!) | |
| When first we begin | |
| To speak one with another. | |
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