It was not as if we two were souls estranged Living in uncomfortable ease, That distance felt when inner fires changed To cooling embers dying by degrees.
We were both flames and flaming did embrace The challenge that our fate had firmly sealed, For we had gazed upon the Mother's face And knew our secret souls by Her revealed.
We sought to weld the hidden links of love Not even mighty death could hope to break In a mystic union sanctioned from above We loved the more for the Beloved's sake.
Now she has left, a final breath at dawn Though through the night I felt her limbs grow cold, And slowly closed her eyes in that grey morn, Whose timeless beauty opened to enfold
One final time in their enchanted spell My life by love enveloped and embraced. I held her dying and in that last farewell All the world's transgressions were effaced.
She has travelled long towards the light My soul's companion and my heart's delight.
For Mary Helen
Poems Undated (1727)
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