Blanche Edith Baughan

“ Ever they clasp, or clash, in love or strife,
And evermore the issue’s larger life—
As yonder City vivifies
Her setting rare of plain and skies
And glorious past both, the whole scene lies—
So, world-wide, Man and Nature win fresh worth
Through one another, and new power confer,
The while, in union, both create and share,
Past either mighty, and past either fair,
The life of the whole Earth! ”

“ Of Rise-and-Fall, past the creating strife:
Beyond all Change, though with all changes rife:
Safe still, for ever safe, is That Which saves!
The Ocean is not counted by its waves;
Containing all, by aught containéd never,
Fadeless and formless, past all forms, for ever
Shines the Essential Life!
Ay, God! Perfection! Spirit! name as we will
Thee Whom our highest name
Can but defame—
Soul of all souls, All-Source, All-Satisfaction,
To Thee, to Thee, ever we break through still!
In Whom both Man and Nature live and move
And have their being ”

“ This idea, however, has been with me implicitly as far back as I can remember; and was deeply intensified by a sudden experience some years since, impossible to put into words, but conveying most clearly to the mind the absolute conviction that Reality is Perfection, and One-ness. ”