Order the beauty even of beauty is,
It is the rule of bliss,
The very life and form and cause of pleasure.


"The Vision", stanza 2; The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. 20.

Thomas Traherne Quotes

Order the beauty even of beauty is, It is the rule of bliss, The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

Order the beauty even of beauty is, It is the rule of bliss, The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

Order the beauty even of beauty is, It is the rule of bliss, The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

Order the beauty even of beauty is, It is the rule of bliss, The very life and form and cause of pleasure.