Elizabeth Barrett Browning - But only three in all God's universe (Sonnets from the Portuguese) lyrics
[Elizabeth Barrett Browning - But only three in all God's universe Sonnets from the Portuguese lyrics]
But only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou
Hast said, - Himself, beside
Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied
One of us that was God, and laid the curse
So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce
My sight from seeing thee
- that if I had died
The deathweights, placed there
Would have signified
Less absolute exclusion 'Nay' is worse
From God than from all others, O my friend!
Men could not part us with their worldly jars
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend
Our hands would touch for
All the mountain bars:
And, heaven being rolled between
Us at the end
We should but vow the faster for the stars
Have heard this word thou
Hast said, - Himself, beside
Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied
One of us that was God, and laid the curse
So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce
My sight from seeing thee
- that if I had died
The deathweights, placed there
Would have signified
Less absolute exclusion 'Nay' is worse
From God than from all others, O my friend!
Men could not part us with their worldly jars
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend
Our hands would touch for
All the mountain bars:
And, heaven being rolled between
Us at the end
We should but vow the faster for the stars