111. Mystery. Ralph Hodgson. Modern British Poetry

Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Ralph Hodgson.

111. The Mystery

HE came and took me by the hand
Up to a red rose tree,
He kept His meaning to Himself
But gave a rose to me.

I did not pray Him to lay bare	5
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see.