XII

I shall never, in the years remaining,

Paint you pictures, no, nor carve you statues, 110

Make you music that should all-express me;

So it seems: I stand on my attainment.

This of verse alone, one life allows me;

Verse and nothing else have I to give you.

Other heights in other lives, God willing: 115

All the gifts from all the heights, your own, Love!

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