For Mary Helen

A Dual Consecration of the Heart

Look down O lovely spirit from the heights

And on this troubled head thy blessing give,

My soul now wanders lonely through the nights,

And in a cruel and sudden void I live.

Knowing thou art free, still I grieve

For mornings we shall never see again,

Yet hold thy smile secure within, believe

When light and truth shall be the earth's domain

All human sorrows end, all joys renew,

The union of two souls no force can part,

Their secret known only to a few,

A dual consecration of the heart.