[BNP/E3, 31A – 70]

78

Inversion

Here in this wilderness

     Each tree and stone fills me

     With the sadness of a great glee.

God in His altogetherness

     Is whole‑part of each stone and tree.

An inner outward seeingness

     Makes my clear self unknown.

     (O Godfully alone!)

God in His overbeingness

     Survives His death each tree and every stone

Ay, in the barkness and clodfulness

     Of tree and sand and stone

     God is only His Own,

God in all His Godfulness,

     Whose concrete soul's each thing's abstraction.