Waits the eternal Gentleness, and traces

His sad horizons ’round the fading world.

Cloud beyond cloud, the arch of heaven goes over—

Steep beyond steep, the patient skies descend:

The illimitable wastes and waves discover

Loneliness—loneliness—without an end.

Inexorable Compassion, may I never

Reach the last verge and limits of Your love!

Beyond me, still beyond me melt forever

The eternal margins, fading as I move.