Poem by Mathilde Blind

Song (I was again beside my Love in dream)

    I was again beside my Love in dream:
      Earth was so beautiful, the moon was shining;
    The muffled voice of many a cataract stream
      Came like a love-song, as, with arms entwining,
    Our hearts were mixed in unison supreme.

    The wind lay spell-bound in each pillared pine,
      The tasselled larches had no sound or motion,
    As my whole life was sinking into thine--
      Sinking into a deep, unfathomed ocean
    Of infinite love--uncircumscribed, divine.

    Night held her breath, it seemed, with all her stars:
      Eternal eyes that watched in mute compassion
    Our little lives o'erleap their mortal bars,
      Fused in the fulness of immortal passion,
    A passion as immortal as the stars.

    There was no longer any thee or me;
      No sense of self, no wish or incompleteness;
    The moment, rounded to Eternity,
      Annihilated time's destructive fleetness:
    For all but love itself had ceased to be.

1. The Red Sunsets, 1883 (The twilight heavens are flushed with gathering light)
2. The Music-Lesson
3. The Passing Year
4. Manchester by Night
5. Song (Thou walkest with me as the spirit-light)

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