| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 252. The Morality of the Lost Word |
| By Arthur Edward Waite (b. 1860) |
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| WITH a measure of light and a measure of shade, | |
| The world of old by the Word was made; | |
| By the shade and light was the Word conceal’d, | |
| And the Word in flesh to the world reveal’d | |
| Is by outward sense and its forms obscured; | 5 |
| The spirit within is the long lost Word, | |
| Besought by the world of the soul in pain | |
| Through a world of words which are void and vain. | |
| O never while shadow and light are blended | |
| Shall the world’s Word-Quest or its woe be ended, | 10 |
| And never the world of its wounds made whole | |
| Till the Word made flesh be the Word made soul! | |
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