Veiled even that glimpse from my view.

And I toiled on, heart-tired of the Human;

And I moaned ’mid the mazes of men;

Till I knelt, long ago, at an altar

And heard a voice call me. Since then

I walk down the Valley of Silence

That lies far beyond human ken.

Do you ask what I found in the Valley?

’Tis my trysting-place with the Divine;

And I fell at the feet of the Holy,