Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
John Masefield (18781967)336. The Seekers
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But the hope of the City of God at the other end of the road.
For we go seeking a city that we shall never find.
Who search for a hidden city that we shall never see.
And the watch-fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
And we find the noisy mart and the sound of burial bells.
But the dolorous town where mourners are going about the street.
And sunset shows us spires away on the world’s rim.
Seeking the Holy City beyond the rim of the sky.
But the hope of the City of God at the other end of the road.