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I see thine image through my tears tonight, + 

And yet today I saw thee smiling. How + 

Refer the cause?⁠—Beloved, is it thou + 

Or I who makes me sad? The acolyte + 

Amid the chanted joy and thankful rite + 

May so fall flat, with pale insensate brow, + 

On the altar-stair. I hear thy voice and vow + 

Perplexed, uncertain, since thou art out of sight, + 

As he, in his swooning ears, the choir’s amen. + 

Beloved, dost thou love? or did I see all + 

The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when + 

Too vehement light dilated my ideal + 

For my soul’s eyes? Will that light come again + 

As now these tears come⁠—falling hot and real? + 