<SPAN name="ftntsvtn" id="ftntsvtn"></SPAN><h2>Grief</h2>
<p>Fierce hunger reigns within my breast,
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">I had not dreamt that this whole world,</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">Crushed in the hand of God, could yield</span><br/>
Such bitter essence of unrest,
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">Such pain as Sorrow now hath hurled</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">Out of its dreadful heart, unsealed!</span><br/></p>
<p>Each sobbing breath is but a cry,
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">My heart-strokes knells of agony,</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">And my whole brain has but one thought</span><br/>
That nevermore through life shall I
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">(Save in the ache of memory)</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">Touch hands with thee, who now art naught!</span><br/></p>
<p>Through the whole void of night I search,
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">So dumbly crying out to thee;</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">But thou are <em>not</em>; and night's vast throne</span><br/>
Becomes an all stupendous church
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">With star-bells knelling unto me</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">Who in all space am most alone!</span><br/></p>
<p>An hungered, to the shore I creep,
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">Perchance some comfort waits on me</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">From the old Sea's eternal heart;</span><br/>
But lo! from all the solemn deep,
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">Far voices out of mystery</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">Seem questioning why we are apart!</span><br/></p>
<p>"Where'er I go I am alone
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">Who once, through thee, had all the world.</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">My breast is one whole raging pain</span><br/>
For that which <em>was</em>, and now is flown
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 0.5em;">Into the Blank where life is hurled</span><br/>
<span style="layout-flow: horizontal; margin-left: 1em;">Where all is not, nor is again!"</span><br/>
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