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TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. SO THIN A VEIL by EDWARD CARPENTER

First Line: SO THIN A VEIL DIVIDES
Last Line: SO THIN A VEIL DIVIDES!
Subject(s): CREATION;

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!



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