| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 90. From ‘Ghazeles’ |
| By Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
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| ALL things once are things for ever; | |
| Soul, once living, lives for ever; | |
| Blame not what is only once, | |
| When that once endures for ever; | |
| Love, once felt, though soon forgot, | 5 |
| Moulds the heart to good for ever; | |
| Once betrayed from childly faith, | |
| Man is conscious man for ever; | |
| Once the void of life revealed, | |
| It must deepen on for ever, | 10 |
| Unless God fill up the heart | |
| With Himself for once and ever: | |
| Once made God and man at once, | |
| God and man are one for ever. | |
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