REFLECTION

When hill, tree, cloud, those shadowy forms
Ascending heaven are seen,
Their mindless beauty I from far
Admire, a gulf between;

Yet in the untroubled river when
Their true ideas I find,
That river, joined in trance with me,
Becomes my second mind.

— George Rostrevor Hamilton. The Carved Stone. 1952
( from Saving the Appearances, A Study in Idolatry, Owen Barfield )