| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 380. Intimations |
| By R. A. Eric Shepherd |
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| I THINK that in the savour of some flowers | |
| God hides the loveliness we fain would know; | |
| And that He makes it poignant with His showers | |
| To lure us on toward what He longs to show. | |
| I know He seeks in tiny wistful airs | 5 |
| To give my soul bright gleams of what shall be, | |
| And that in plainsong endings quick despairs | |
| Glitter like angels o’er a shadowed sea. | |
| There is no thing God may not make His own | |
| That smelleth sweet and is of good report.… | 10 |
| The leastest thing that we have longest known | |
| May truth reveal beyond the range of thought. | |
| And so each tiniest act and merest ploy | |
| May grow instinct with sacramental joy! | |
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