| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 99. All things are full of God |
| By John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895) |
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| ALL things are full of God. Thus spoke | |
| Wise Thales in the days | |
| When subtle Greece to thought awoke | |
| And soared in lofty ways. | |
| And now what wisdom have we more? | 5 |
| No sage divining-rod | |
| Hath taught than this a deeper lore, | |
| ALL THINGS ARE FULL OF GOD. | |
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| The Light that gloweth in the sky | |
| And shimmers in the sea, | 10 |
| That quivers in the painted fly | |
| And gems the pictured lea, | |
| The million hues of Heaven above | |
| And Earth below are one, | |
| And every lightful eye doth love | 15 |
| The primal light, the Sun. | |
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| Even so, all vital virtue flows | |
| From life’s first fountain, God; | |
| And he who feels, and he who knows, | |
| Doth feel and know from God. | 20 |
| As fishes swim in briny sea, | |
| As fowl do float in air, | |
| From Thy embrace we cannot flee; | |
| We breathe, and Thou art there. | |
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| Go, take thy glass, astronomer, | 25 |
| And all the girth survey | |
| Of sphere harmonious linked to sphere, | |
| In endless bright array. | |
| All that far-reaching Science there | |
| Can measure with her rod, | 30 |
| All powers, all laws, are but the fair | |
| Embodied thoughts of God. | |
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