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Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

127. From ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens’

CALM soul of all things! make it mine

To feel, amid the city’s jar,

That there abides a peace of thine,

Man did not make, and cannot mar!

The will to neither strive nor cry,

The power to feel with others give!

Calm, calm me more! nor let me die

Before I have begun to live.