Yet this—it cannot be—how can it?—nay—

For me you come—and you? your voice I hear?

No echo void, oft, oft so sweet in dreams?—

Nor now to wake me?—Nay I trust. You may—

’Twill stray no more—take back your wanderer.”

“My wanderer!” I answer’d, when I could;

“Ah Edith, you but wander’d as the lamb;

My spotless, worldling-mediator, you!—

It wander’d?—yes; it cross’d a threshold chill;

A proud cathedral enter’d; there found one