THE HOLY OF HOLIES
by: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
- LDER
father, though thine eyes
- Shine with hoary mysteries,
- Canst thou tell what in the heart
- Of a cowslip blossom lies?
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- Smaller than all lives that be,
- Secret as the deepest sea,
- Stands a little house of seeds,
- Like an elfins granary.
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- Speller of the stones and weeds,
- Skilled in Natures crafts and creeds,
- Tell me what is in the heart
- Of the smallest of the seeds.
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- God Almighty, and with Him
- Cherubim and Seraphim,
- Filling all eternity--
- Adonai Elohim.
"The Holy of Holies" is
reprinted from The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.
Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917. |
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