English poem
You Were Stay’D
by Herbert Trench (1865–1923)
You were stay’d in heart on heaven, I by none but you forgiven,— You unto your Light are taken, I of all, in you, forsaken.
Where the night is never broken Where for long no speech hath spoken, There the ears no longer hearken, There the eyeballs wane and darken.
Yet at hours my soul—so bounded— By that gloom like blood surrounded— Sees in ancient daylight burning— Hears departed feet returning.