This life, which I have dared invoke,

Henceforth is parallel with thine.

“A silent awe is in my room;

I tremble with delicious fear;

The future with its light and gloom,—

Time and Eternity are here.

“Doubts—hopes, in eager tumult rise;

Hear, O my God! one earnest prayer:

Room for my bird in Paradise,

And give her angel-plumage there!”