<h2>II</h2>
<p>But only three in all God’s universe<br/>
Have heard this word thou hast said,—Himself, beside<br/>
Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied<br/>
One of us . . . that was God, . . . and laid the curse<br/>
So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce<br/>
My sight from seeing thee,—that if I had died,<br/>
The death-weights, placed there, would have signified<br/>
Less absolute exclusion. “Nay” is worse<br/>
From God than from all others, O my friend!<br/>
Men could not part us with their worldly jars,<br/>
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;<br/>
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:<br/>
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,<br/>
We should but vow the faster for the stars.</p>
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