BELOVED, MY BELOVED

1 Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
2 That thou wast in the world a year ago,
3 What time I sate alone here in the snow
4 And saw no footprint, heard the silence sink
5 No moment at thy voice ... but, link by link,
6 Went counting all my chains, as if that so
7 They never could fall off at any blow
8 Struck by thy possible hand ... why, thus I drink
9 Of life's great cup of wonder! Wonderful,
10 Never to feel thee thrill the day or night
11 With personal act or speech,--nor ever cull
12 Some prescience of thee with the blossoms white
13 Thou sawest growing! Atheists are as dull,
14 Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight.