The very sunlight one had dreamed I lost,

The soul of the returning April grass,

The spirit of the evening and the dawn,

The perfume in unnumbered hawthorn-blooms.

There was no shadow on my perfect peace,

No knowledge that was hidden from my heart.

I learned what music meant; I read the years;

I found where rainbows hide, where tears begin;

I trod the precincts of things yet unborn.

Yea, while I found all wisdom (being dead),