Dear and wild heart behind this quivering snow

With two red stains on it: and I will strike and tear

Mine out, and scatter it to yours. Oh! throbbing dust,

You that were life, our little wind-blown hearts!

The road! the road!

There is a shadow there: I see my soul,

I hear my soul, singing among the trees!

MADELEINE IN CHURCH

Here, in the darkness, where this plaster saint

Stands nearer than God stands to our distress,