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