And thou art to receive not love but faith,

For which thou wilt be mine, and smile and take

All shapes and shames, and veil without a fear

That form which music follows like a slave:

And I look to thee and I trust in thee,

As in a Northern night one looks alway

Unto the East for morn and spring and joy.

Thou seest then my aimless, hopeless state,

And, resting on some few old feelings won

Back by thy beauty, wouldst that I essay