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Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

Michael Field (1846–1914)

339. ‘Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod’

NOT alone in Palestine those blessed Feet have trod,

For I catch their print,

I have seen their dint

On a plot of chalky ground,

Little villas dotted round;

On a sea-worn waste,

Where a priest, in haste,

Passeth with the Blessèd Sacrament to one dying, frail,

Through the yarrow, past the tamarisk, and the plaited snail:

Bright upon the grass I see

Bleeding Feet of Calvary—

And I worship, and I clasp them round!

On this bit of chalky, English ground,

Jesu, Thou art found: my God I hail,

My Lord, my God!