| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 290. Star Teachers |
| By George William Russell (A.E.) (b. 1867) |
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| EVEN as a bird sprays many-coloured fires, | |
| The plumes of paradise, the dying light | |
| Rays through the fevered air in misty spires | |
| That vanish in the height. | |
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| These myriad eyes that look on me are mine; | 5 |
| Wandering beneath them I have found again | |
| The ancient ample moment, the divine, | |
| The God-root within men. | |
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| For this, for this the lights innumerable | |
| As symbols shine that we the true light win: | 10 |
| For every star and every deep they fill | |
| Are stars and deeps within. | |
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