 | Studies in verse (1865) |  |
And, as she spake, the great concluding hand
Touched her sharp face: the voice fell, and the eyes
Looked strangely for a moment. In that pause
Of seconds time had ended in a heart
Of infinite emotion: infinite rest,
Sudden and vast, came; as the sudden day
Brake in the hospital; and her kind friend
Looked towards the bed and then knelt down by it,
Seeing an orient silence on the face,
To which all now was even in the world,
Sorrow and mirth, and blame and recompense.
Touched her sharp face: the voice fell, and the eyes
Looked strangely for a moment. In that pause
Of seconds time had ended in a heart
Of infinite emotion: infinite rest,
Sudden and vast, came; as the sudden day
Brake in the hospital; and her kind friend
Looked towards the bed and then knelt down by it,
Seeing an orient silence on the face,
To which all now was even in the world,
Sorrow and mirth, and blame and recompense.
| Studies in verse (1865) | |