ENVOI

Beloved, when my heart's awake to God

And all the world becomes His testimony,

In you I most do see, in your brave spirit,

Erect and certain, flashing deeds of light,

A pure jet from the fountain of all being,

A scripture clearer than all else to read.

And when belief was dead and God a myth,

And the world seemed a wandering mote of evil,

Endurable only by its impermanence,

And all the planets perishable urns

Of perished ashes, to you alone I clung

Amid the unspeakable loneliness of the universe.