My baffled spirit, with abated breath,
Flutters upon the verge of life and death—
And all my being, whirled along in wonder,
Dies between breath and breath.
Let me endure, within a single pulsing
Of the quick heart, in a storm of showering rain
Of sound, all joy, all grief—each breath again
Live through a life complete, in one convulsing
Moment of rapturous pain!
Silence—the lamplight, through the window streaming,