Than helpless love or hopeless sympathy!—

For thou art filled

With visions now of soul’s supremer sphere,

Like thine but infinite in love, O tear!

Thou art too blurred and blinding now to let

Thine eye behold the beauty of the light

That glimmers through thy grief,—but thou wilt yet,

If pleaseth God, with faith-anointed sight

And love anew

Dissolve in joy and for the sepulchre