But Thee!

Then, hiding even in me,

As hid was Simon’s coin within the fish,

Thou sigh’st, with joy, “Be dumb,

Or speak but of forgotten things to far-off times to come.”

And of the second, this—

*****

O Death, too tardy with thy hope intense

Of kisses close beyond conceit of sense;

O Life, too liberal, while to take her hand