1899 · CLOSE READING
Jephthah and Other Mysteries
Jephthah and Other Mysteries (1899), PDF p. 180
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158 - MYSTERIES:
The constant ripple of your long white hands,
The soul-tormenting violin that speaks
Truth, and enunciates all my soul seeks,
And binds my love in its desirous bands,
And clutches at my heart, until there stands
No fibre yet unshaken, while it wreaks
In one sharp song the agony of weeks,
And all my soul and body understands.
The music changes, and I know that here,
In these new melodies, a tongue of fire
Leaps at each waving of the silver spear;
And all my sorrow dons delight’s attire
Because the gate of Heaven is so near,
And I have comprehended my desire.
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