In Memoriam (Tennyson)/Canto 120

by Alfred Tennyson

cxx.

Oh, wast thou with me, dearest, then,
While I rose up against my doom,
And strove to burst the folded gloom,
To bare the eternal Heavens again,

To feel once more, in placid awe,
The strong imagination roll
A sphere of stars about my soul,
In all her motion one with law;

If thou wert with me, and the grave
Divide us not, he with me now,
And enter in at breast and brow,
Till all my blood, a fuller wave.

Be quicken'd with a livelier breath,
And like an inconsiderate boy,
As in the former fash of joy,
I slip the thoughts of life and death;

And all the breeze of Fancy blows,
And every dew-drop paints a bow;
The wizard lightnings deeply glow,
And every thought breaks out a rose.