TEXT: ​Carrie Williams Clifford (1862-1934)

 

Quest 

 

My goal out-distances the utmost star, 

Yet is encompassed in my inmost Soul; 

I am my goal—my quest, to know myself. 

To chart and compass this unfathomed sea, 

Myself must plumb the boundless universe. 

My Soul contains all thought, all mystery, 

All wisdom of the Great Infinite Mind: 

This is to discover, I must voyage far, 

At last to find it in my pulsing heart.