Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SO THIN A VEIL, by EDWARD CARPENTER


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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SO THIN A VEIL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So thin a veil divides
Last Line: So thin a veil divides!
Subject(s): Creation


SO thin a veil divides
Us from such joy, past words.
Walking in daily life—the business of the hour, each detail seen to;
Yet carried, rapt away, on what sweet floods of other Being:
Swift streams of music flowing, light far back through all Creation
shining,
Loved faces looking—
Ah! from the true, the mortal self
So thin a veil divides!





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