We could not move a single pace, 50
We could not see each other’s face,
But with that pale and livid light
That made us strangers in our sight;
And thus together—yet apart
Fetter’d in hand, but joined in heart; 55
’Twas still some solace in the dearth
Of the pure elements of earth,
To hearken to each other’s speech,
And each turn comforter to each