The Beloved Disciple + 

One do I see and twelve; but second there + 

Methinks I know thee, thou beloved one; + 

Not from thy nobler port, for there are none + 

More quiet-featured: some there are who bear + 

Their message on their brows, while others wear + 

A look of large commission, nor will shun + 

The fiery trial, so their work is done; + 

But thou hast parted with thine eyes in prayer⁠— + 

Unearthly are they both; and so thy lips + 

Seem like the porches of the spirit land; + 

For thou hast laid a mighty treasure by + 

Unlocked by Him in Nature, and thine eye + 

Burns with a vision and apocalypse + 

Thy own sweet soul can hardly understand. + 

A Boanerges too! Upon my heart + 

It lay a heavy hour: features like thine + 

Should glow with other message than the shine + 

Of the earth-burrowing levin, and the start + 

That cleaveth horrid gulfs! Awful and swart + 

A moment stoodest thou, but less divine⁠— + 

Brawny and clad in ruin⁠—till with mine + 

Thy heart made answering signals, and apart + 

Beamed forth thy two rapt eyeballs doubly clear + 

And twice as strong because thou didst thy duty, + 

And, though affianced to immortal Beauty, + 

Hiddest not weakly underneath her veil + 

The pest of Sin and Death which maketh pale: + 

Henceforward be thy spirit doubly dear! + 