They cry one to the other; ‘Alone I was not I,’

‘O lovely danger!’ and ‘O my angel need!’

‘Because thy sweetness is so troubling and so sharp,

Full of blood-thrilling strangeness, unexplored peril,

Never to be possessed, always to be desired,

Thou unknown world, I will dare all for thee.’

‘Though in a moment thou hast made me to forget

All that I was and had, triumphing I hold thee;

To thy darkness of strength I give and commit me;

Here is thy world, O sail upon my sea!’