So Thin a Veil

Ancient Agora - Athens, Greece - 2007




So Thin a Veil
By Edward Carpenter (b. 1844)

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!