PAST AND FUTURE

1 My future will not copy fair my past
2 On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done,
3 Supernal Will ! I would not fain be one
4 Who, satisfying thirst and breaking fast
5 Upon the fulness of the heart, at last
6 Saith no grace after meat. My wine hath run
7 Indeed out of my cup, and there is none
8 To gather up the bread of my repast
9 Scattered and trampled ! Yet I find some good
10 In earth's green herbs, and streams that bubble up
11 Clear from the darkling ground, -- content until
12 I sit with angels before better food.
13 Dear Christ ! when thy new vintage fills my cup,
14 This hand shall shake no more, nor that wine spill.