A RETROSPECT

I, trusting that the truly sweet

Would still be sweetly found the true,

Sang, darkling, taught by heavenly heat,

Songs which were wiser than I knew.

To the unintelligible dream

That melted like a gliding star,

I said: ‘We part to meet, fair Gleam!

You are eternal, for you _are_.’

To Love’s strange riddle, fiery writ

In flesh and spirit of all create,

‘Mocker,’ I said, ‘of mortal wit,

Me you shall not mock. I can wait.’

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