Part of the clear, intense, eternal flame

Whose motion is like music, and we lose

Sense of ourselves in drawing close to God.

Love, that has cleansed the heart of pettiness,

Shows me the face of Merow in my dreams.”

And, as she spoke, the face of Brunhild lit

With radiance from that old love, her face

Softened, and age was as a grace to her.

“Yea, I loved Sigebert; but all that love

Was but my childish wonder at the ways