| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 52. From ‘An Essay on Man’ |
| By Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
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| ALL are but parts of one stupendous whole, | |
| Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; | |
| That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, | |
| Great in the earth, as in th’ ethereal frame, | |
| Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, | 5 |
| Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, | |
| Lives through all life, extends through all extent, | |
| Spreads undivided, operates unspent: | |
| Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part; | |
| As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; | 10 |
| As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns | |
| As the rapt Seraphim, that sings and burns: | |
| To him no high, no low, no great, no small— | |
| He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.… | |
| All nature is but art, unknown to thee: | 15 |
| All chance, direction, which thou canst not see: | |
| All discord, harmony not understood; | |
| All partial evil, universal good. | |
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