<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118210" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Υμνος αυμνος</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Thou whose image in the shrine<br>Of human spirits dwells divine;<br>Which from that precinct once conveyed,<br>To be to outer day displayed,<br>Doth vanish, part, and leave behind<br>Mere blank and void of empty mind,<br>Which wilful fancy seeks in vain<br>With casual shapes to fill again!<br>O Thou that in our bosom’s shrine<br>Dost dwell, unknown because divine!<br>I thought to speak, I thought to say,<br>‘The light is here,’ ‘behold the way,’<br>‘The voice was thus,’ and ‘thus the word,’<br>And ‘thus I saw,’ and ‘that I heard,’—<br>But from the lips that half essayed<br>The imperfect utterance fell unmade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Thou, in that mysterious shrine<br>Enthroned, as I must say, divine!<br>I will not frame one thought of what<br>Thou mayest either be or not.<br>I will not prate of ‘thus’ and ‘so,’<br>And be profane with ‘yes’ and ‘no,’<br>Enough that in our soul and heart<br>Thou, whatso’er Thou may’st be, art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unseen, secure in that high shrine<br>Acknowledged present and divine,<br>I will not ask some upper air,<br>Some future day to place Thee there;<br>Nor say, nor yet deny, such men<br>And women saw Thee thus and then:<br>Thy name was such, and there or here<br>To him or her Thou didst appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do only Thou in that dim shrine,<br>Unknown or known, remain, divine;<br>There, or if not, at least in eyes<br>That scan the fact that round them lies,<br>The hand to sway, the judgment guide,<br>In sight and sense Thyself divide:<br>Be Thou but there,—in soul and heart,<br>I will not ask to feel Thou art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118210" data-title="Υμνος αυμνος de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="O Thou whose image in the shrine/Of human spirits dwells divine;/Which from that precinct once conveyed,/To be to outer day displayed,/Doth vanish, part, and leave behind/Mere blank and void of empty mind,/Which wilful fancy seeks in vain/With cas..."></div> </div> </div>

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