PLUS INTRA

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Soul within sense, immeasurable, obscure,

Insepulchred and deathless, through the dense

Deep elements may scarce be felt as pure

Soul within sense.

From depth and height by measurers left immense,

Through sound and shape and colour, comes the unsure

Vague utterance, fitful with supreme suspense.

All that may pass, and all that must endure,

Song speaks not, painting shews not: more intense

And keen than these, art wakes with music's lure

Soul within sense.