Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
XXIII.
ON HIS DECEASED WIFE
Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Brought to me [like Alcestis] from the grave,
Whom Jove’s great son to her glad husband gave,
Rescued from Death by force, though pale and faint.
Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint 5
[Purification in the Old Law] did save,
And such as yet once more I trust to have