In Memoriam A. H. H. · Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Chapter 128: CXXVIII

Thy voice is on the rolling air; I hear thee where the waters run; Thou standest in the rising sun, And in the setting thou art fair.

What art thou then? I cannot guess; But tho’ I seem in star and flower To feel thee, some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less:

My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho’ mix’d with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.

Far off thou art, but ever nigh; I have thee still, and I rejoice; I prosper, circled with thy voice; I shall not lose thee tho’ I die.