For Mary Helen

Our Soul's Delight

And suddenly I saw you standing there

As through the stained glass windows slanted light

Fell on your sari wove of heaven's blue

And in a moment's dawning glance I knew

That in this troubled world there lived delight,

An unspoiled joy which both our souls would share

As we together in consecration moved

Through the seasons of the earth so deeply loved

And laboured in a strange and distant air,

Bounteous and beautiful and bright,

And grew aware half consciously at first

Of Godhead's call and spirit's heightened thirst.

Though from the body's pain your soul has flown

And carried with it something of my own

No human griefor temporal despair

Can vanquish Her who is our soul's delight.