Vanish the outlines once so clear:—

I know thee more by faith than sight.

VI.

Upon my shoulder, lightly as a bird,

Her white hand lit: then back she fled, afraid;

Beside my seat once more she stood, nor stirred,

But loosed her hair, and round me dropped its shade.

Down to my feet it fell—a sudden night:

She spake, “Thy darkness and eclipse am I;

But thou my sunrise art, and all my light;