THE VEIL

You have said that I sold

My life for a song;

Laid bare my heart

That men might listen

And go their ways —

My inchoate heart

That I dare not plumb,

That goes unbridled

To the depths of Hell,

That sings in the sun

To the brink of Heaven!

I have tossed you the spindrift

Born of its fretting

On its shallowest coast,

But over the depths of it

Bastioned in wonder

And silent with fear

God sits with me!