While tremulous lights into shadows flit,

With a piece of Heaven held in my hand,

Which is mine—and I cannot enter it!

At last—O my wonderful dear at last!

Thou always comest, howe'er it is—

The senseless signs into symmetry pass'd,

For a few short seconds it must be bliss!

And so standing there in the twilight's fall

(What happen'd is nothing but what must be)

I read the first words that ever at all