AND OTHER POEMS
Reading edition
BY
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1885
Copyright, 1884, BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
Dear! Is the distance vast? I cross it here. The chasm fathomless? I span it thus. The silence dread? I break it. What is fear? When only our own hearts can sever us.
The gold and frankincense I should have given, Envy the myrrh I lay within your hand; Dearer to me than fame of earth or heaven It is, to know that you will understand.