3.
“When I awake up after Thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.”
When our insensate limbs lie on the bed
Of sleep, on the live spirit visions break,
Which then without the body is awake.
And if it be, as holy men have said,
That sleep is but an image of the dead,—
What time the soul the lifeless body leaves,
And to new being lives, and joys, and grieves,—
Then things which here we most have cherishèd
May blend with visions of that after-sight,
As here in dreams of woe or keen delight;
But when our souls and bodies shall unite,
Then it may be as when we ope our eyes
At waking, and with sense regained arise
To woe or joy's substantial verities.
