Deep in the wind-torn wood,

I met him!... Dead he lies beneath

Your trysting oak. I clenched my teeth

And rode. My wound scarce let me breathe,

That filled my eyes with blood.

And here I am. The blood may blind

My eyesight still!... but I will find

Thee through some inner eye!

For God—He hath this thing in care!—

Yea! I will kiss again thy hair,