With flame and darkness ridge

The void, as low as where this earth

Spins like a fretful midge;”

she knows the angels who “sit circlewise”—

“To fashion the birth-robes for them

Who are just born, being dead!”

Her one prayer is for the old companionship, the old, simple, earthly happiness,—

“Only to live as once on earth

With Love,—only to be,

As then awhile, for ever now,