James Cousins

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“They said: "She dwelleth in some place apart,   Immortal Truth, within whose eyes   Who looks may find the secret of the skiesAnd healing for life's smart."{{pb}}I sought Her in loud caverns underground,—   On heights where lightnings flashed and fell;   I scaled high Heaven; I stormed the gates of Hell,But Her I never found{{pb}}Till thro' the tumults of my Quest I caught   A whisper: "Here, within thy heart,   I dwell; for I am thou: behold, thou artThe Seeker and the Sought."”

“For sorrow and joy are one, and all the pastAnd all the future mingle in a kiss.”

“When I from life's unrest had earned the graceOf utter ease beside a quiet stream;When all that was had mingled in a dreamTo eyes awakened out of time and place;Then in the cup of one great moment's spaceWas crushed the living wine from things that seem;I drank the joy of very Beauty's gleam,And saw God's glory face to shining face.{{pb}}Almost my brow was chastened to the ground,But for an inner Voice that said: "Arise!Wisdom is wisdom only to the wise:Thou art thyself the Royal thou hast crowned:In Beauty thine own beauty thou hast found,And thou hast looked on God with God's own eyes."”