Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)“That where I am, there ye may be also”
| HOW know I that it looms lovely, that land I have never seen, | |
| With morning-glories, and heartsease, and unexampled green, | |
| With neither heat nor cold in the balm-redolent air? | |
| Some of this, not all, I know; but this is so: | |
| Christ is there. | 5 |
| How know I that blessedness befalls who dwell in Paradise, | |
| The outwearied hearts refreshing, rekindling the worn-out eyes, | |
| All souls singing, seeing, rejoicing everywhere? | |
| Nay, much more than this I know; for this is so: | |
| Christ is there. | 10 |
| O Lord Christ, whom having not seen I love and desire to love, | |
| O Lord Christ, who lookest on me uncomely, yet still Thy dove, | |
| Take me to Thee in Paradise, Thine own made fair; | |
| For whatever else I know, this thing is so: | |
| Thou art there. | 15 |