Classic Poem

A SPIRIT PRESENT.

If, coming from that unknown sphere
Where I believe thou art
The world unseen which girds our world
So close, yet so apart,
Thy soul's soft call unto my soul
Electrical could reach, And mortal and immortal blend In one familiar speech,
What wouldst thou say to me? wouldst ask
What, since did me befall? Or close this chasm of cruel years
Between us - knowing all?
Wouldst love me — thy pure eyes seeing that
God only saw beside? Oh, love me!
'T was so hard to live,
So easy to have died.
If while this dizzy whirl of life
A moment pausing stay'd,
I face to face with thee could stand, I would not be afraid:
Not though from heaven to heaven thy feet
In glad ascent have trod,
While mine took through earth's miry ways
Their solitary road. We could not lose each other.
World On world piled ever higher
Would part like bank'd clouds, lightning-cleft
By our two souls' desire.
Life ne'er divided us; death tried,
But could not; Love's voice fine
Call'd luring through the dark — then ceased,
And I am wholly thine.