| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 361. Vision |
| By James H. Cousins |
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| WHEN I from life’s unrest had earned the grace | |
| Of utter ease beside a quiet stream; | |
| When all that was had mingled in a dream | |
| To eyes awakened out of time and place; | |
| Then in the cup of one great moment’s space | 5 |
| Was crushed the living wine from things that seem; | |
| I drank the joy of very Beauty’s gleam, | |
| And saw God’s glory face to shining face. | |
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| Almost my brow was chastened to the ground, | |
| But for an inner Voice that said: ‘Arise! | 10 |
| Wisdom is wisdom only to the wise: | |
| Thou art thyself the Royal thou hast crowned: | |
| In Beauty thine own beauty thou hast found, | |
| And thou hast looked on God with God’s own eyes.’ | |
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