Take, and uplift me. Make me wholly Hers."

Said the white stars, the heavenly ministers,—

"This life is brief, but it is only one.

Before to-morrow's sun

For one or both of you it may be done.

This love of yours is only just begun.

Will all the ecstasy that may be won

Before this life its little course has run

At all suffice

The love that agonizes in your eyes?