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POEM: "So Thin a Veil" ~Edward Carpenter

SO THIN A VEIL

by: Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)

O 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!


Edward Carpenter and George Merrill were the models for E. M. Forster's Maurice.