But only three in all God's universe Have heard this word thou hast said,--himself, beside Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied One of us...that was God,...and laid the curse So darkly on my eyelids, so as to amerce My sight from seeing thee,--that if I had died, The death-weights, placed there, would have signified Less absolute exclusion."Nay" is worse From God than from all others, O my friend!

Men could not part us with their worldly jars, Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:

And, heaven being rolled between us at the end, We should but vow the faster for the stars.