TRANSPORTED out of self by Youth's sweet madness, <br />Emulous of love, to Love's empyrean height, <br />Where I beheld you aureoled in light, <br />My soul upsprang on wings of angel-gladness. <br />Far, far below, the earth and all earth's badness-- <br />A speck of dust--slipped darkling into night, <br />As suns of fairer planets flamed in sight, <br />Pure orbs or bliss unstained by gloom or sadness. <br /> <br />Lo, as I soared etherially on high, <br />You vanished, from my swimming eyes aloof, <br />Alone, alone, within the empty sky, <br />I reached out giddily, and reeling fell <br />From starriest heaven, to plunge in lowest hell, <br />My proud heart broken on Earth's humblest roof.<br /><br />Mathilde Blind<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-vision/
