Spiritual blueprint for the humble believer?

To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

YET, how few believe such doctrine springs

From a poor root,

Which all the winter sleeps here underfoot,

And hath no wings

To raise it to the truth and light of things―

But is still trod

By ev'ry wand'ring clod.

O Thou, Whose Spirit did at first inflame

And warm the dead,

And by a sacred incubation fed

With life this frame,

Which once had neither being, form, nor name,

Grant, I may so

Thy steps track here below,

That in these masques and shadows I may see

Thy sacred way―

And by those hid ascents climb to that day

Which breaks from Thee,

Who art in all things, though invisibly.

―Henry Vaughan, The Hidden Flower

Horatia K. F. Gatty, Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books, 1885, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, Part III, Henry Vaughan, The Hidden Flower, 80