Reverence Waking Hope + 

A power is on me, and my soul must speak + 

To thee, thou grey, grey man, whom I behold + 

With those white-headed children. I am bold + 

To commune with thy setting, and to wreak + 

My doubts on thy grey hair; for I would seek + 

Thee in that other world, but I am told + 

Thou goest elsewhere and wilt never hold + 

Thy head so high as now. Oh I were weak, + 

Weak even to despair, could I forego + 

The tender vision which will give somehow + 

Thee standing brightly one day even as now! + 

Thou art a very grey old man, and so + 

I may not pass thee darkly, but bestow + 

A look of reverence on thy wrinkled brow. + 