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Coventry Patmore - Woken
Identifier
004733
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Woken [Adapted from a poem by Coventry Patmore]
A woman like me and man like you,
Look round us, but for all the rest
The world - miraculously fair -
Seems poor and dead and no interest
Love woke us, once a lifetime each
We lifted our wondering eyes to look
And there - what one sweet page can teach!
We read with joy that glorious book
And we give thanks, but those unloved
Sleep on, as if in some long dream
And work and yawn and go about their jobs
How empty must their sad world seem