text: ] Who and what gave to me the wish to woo thee-- Still lip to lip to cling for aye unto thee? Who made thy glances to my soul the link-- Who bade me burn thy very breath to drink-- My life in thine to sink? As from the conquerors unresisted glaive Flies without strife subdued the ready slave-- So when to life's unguarded fort I see Thy gaze draw near and near triumphantly-- Yields not my soul to thee? Why from its lord doth thus my soul depart?-- Is it because its native home thou art? Or were they brothers in the days of yore Twin-bound both souls and in the links they bore Sigh to be bound once more? Were once our beings blent and intertwining And therefore still my heart for thine is pining? Knew we the light of some extinguished sun-- The joys remote of some bright realm undone Where once our souls were ONE? Yes it _is_ so!--And thou wert bound to me In the long-vanish'd Eld eternally! In the dark troubled tablets which enroll The Past--my Muse beheld this blessed scroll-- "One with thy love my soul!" Oh yes I learn'd in awe when gazing there How once one bright inseparate life we were How once one glorious essence as a God Unmeasured space our chainless footsteps trode-- All Nature our abode! Round us in waters of delight for ever Voluptuous flow'd the heavenly Nectar river; We were the master of the seal of things And where the sunshine bathed Truth's mountain-springs Quiver'd our glancing wings