And love will last as pure and whole
As when he loved me here in Time, And at the spiritual prime Rewaken with the dawning soul.
XLVI.
That each, who seems a separate whole,
Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul,
Is faith as vague as all unsweet:
Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet:
And we shall sit at endless feast,
Enjoying each the other's good: What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth? He seeks at least
Upon the last and sharpest height,
Before the spirits fade away, Some landing-place to clasp and say, "Farewell! We lose ourselves in light."
SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP.
XCIII.
How pure at heart and sound in head,
With what divine affections bold, Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead.