Lift me, O lift me up to you forever,
Beautiful Terror! Let your sacred might
Stoop to me here, and save—O let me never
Sink from you now, to share a lesser flight!
Even as I pray, my wings of longing fail me,
And my heart flags. In solitude you move
Down the night’s shore: not praying shall avail me,
To lift me, fallen from your faultless love.