Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
A FarewellA. E. (George William Russell) (18671935)
O
Many another vesture hath the soul, I pray
Call me not forth from this. If from the light I part
Only with clay I cling unto the clay.
Our ways, unfolding lonely glories, not our own,
Not from each other gather’d; but an inward glow
Breathed by the Lone One to the seeker lone.
When the last ruby drop dissolves in diamond light,
Meet in a deeper vesture in another day;
Until that dawn, dear heart, good-night, good-night!