From dreams of terror—and the mad return

Into the bounteous pity of two arms,

The comfort and the kindness. O the return

Forever and forever, wild and sad,

Seraphic with all weariness and pain,

Insatiate with all love—as if to slake

In one abandon all the desperate drought

Of the years to come! Upon my own I felt

The wet, salt quivering of your lips, and all

Your being fold me in, urgent to save,