Truth + 

It is not that I have not sought thy face + 

Ceaselessly through the world’s eternal lie, + 

More than all things and throughout every place, + 

Which having seen I were content to die. + 

But I have sought thee and I have not found; + 

Wherefore my soul is banish’d from delight, + 

And sitteth joyless as a madman bound + 

Seeing vain visions in the loathed night. + 

I know not even that I do not know, + 

But all things waver before me to and fro; + 

As one half head that would be dead I lie. + 

And thou, Death, if thy face be really fair, + 

I know not, or but renewal of vanity; + 

Wherefore mine eyes have seen the last despair. + 