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Closer Is He than Breathing,
and Nearer than Hands and Feet

by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains -
Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns?
Is not the Vision He? tho' He be not that which he seems?
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb,
Are they not sign and symbol of division from Him?
Dark is the to : thyself art the reason why;
For is He not all but that which has power to feel "I am I"?
Glory about, without ; and fulfillest doom
Making him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour and gloom.
Speak to Him for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet -
Closer is he than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice,
For if he is thunder by law the thunder is yet his voice.

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all
Little flower - but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

Hallowed be name - Halleluiah! -
Infinite ideality!
Immeasurable Reality!
Infinite Personality!
Hallowed be name - Halleluiah!
We feel we are nothing - for all is and in ;
We feel we are something - that also has come from ;
We know we are nothing - but wilt help us to be.
Hallowed be name - Halleluiah!

 


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