IV.
THOU REIGNEST STILL.
THOU REIGNEST STILL.
THOU liv'st and reignest in my memory, Discrowned of earth, but crowned still in the soul Subject to thee from pole to utmost pole:— This is the kingdom thou hast still in fee, Though Silence and the Night have hidden thee—King, crowned in joy, and crowned again in dole, Sovereign and master of my being's whole, My heart, and life, and all there is of me.
It is thy breath I breathe upon the air; Thou shinest on me with the stars of night; Thou risest for me with the morning sun; I enter Dreamland's Court and find thee there, And finding quiver with the old delight, When life and love and hope had just begun.