By sinking into Nothingness;
For in our Nothing we are such,
That nothing can our Nothing touch.
Our enemies their arms prepare;
They smite, but find us empty air;
For when we see the lifted rod,
We leave ourselves, and hide in God.
We always know which way to run,
And thus all threatening dangers shun;
In vain they seek; they cannot find
Our hiding place in God's great Mind.
And when they undertake to smite,
They find that God is in the fight;
And God and Nothing make them know
A great and sudden overthrow.
— Christ in the Soul (1872) LXXX.