| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 387. Quiet |
| By John Spencer Muirhead |
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| THERE is a flame within me that has stood | |
| Unmoved, untroubled through a mist of years, | |
| Knowing nor love nor laughter, hope nor fears, | |
| Nor foolish throb of ill, nor wine of good. | |
| I feel no shadow of the winds that brood, | 5 |
| I hear no whisper of a tide that veers, | |
| I weave no thought of passion, nor of tears, | |
| Unfettered I of time, of habitude. | |
| I know no birth, I know no death that chills; | |
| I fear no fate nor fashion, cause nor creed, | 10 |
| I shall outdream the slumber of the hills, | |
| I am the bud, the flower, I the seed: | |
| For I do know that in whate’er I see | |
| I am the part and it the soul of me. | |
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