A SONG
Reading edition
Shadows we are and shadows seek And haunt the place where shadows move; But I, who know thy blessed love, Scorn shadowland and all things weak. Thou art alone reality; The rest is dream within a dream. My life knows nothing but doth seem Save only thee, save only thee. Through noon of day and noon of night There steals a golden thought and rare, That still we breathe the self-same air, Still glory in the same delight. That soul to soul and sense to sense— Our heavens woven into one— We’re shining, each the other’s sun, Before we vanish and go hence. And if thy love should faint and die, The deep, eternal after-glow Shall burn for ever where I go— A cloud of light in my grey sky.