Fade from them, and the kind Earth-spirit strips

The bandage from their eyes,

Touches their hearts and bids them feel and see;

Beauty and Knowledge with that rare apprise

Pour over them from some divine abode,

Falling as in a flood of memory,

The bliss of God.

I too perchance some day,

When Love and Life have fallen far apart,

Shall slip the yoke and seek your upward way