Sonnet 2

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1. But only three in all God’s universe
2. Have heard this word thou hast said,—Himself, beside
3. Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied
4. One of us . . . that was God, . . . and laid the curse
5. So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce
6. My sight from seeing thee,—that if I had died,
7. The death-weights, placed there, would have signified
8. Less absolute exclusion. “Nay” is worse
9. From God than from all others, O my friend!
10. Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
11. Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
12. Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
13. And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
14. We should but vow the faster for the stars.