名人诗歌|I cannot live with You (640)

It would be Life -

And Life is over there -

Behind the Shelf

The Sexton keeps the Key to -

Putting up

Our Life - His Porcelain^{1 -}

Like a Cup -

Discarded of the Housewife -

Quaint^{2 - or Broke -}

A newer Sevres pleases -

Old ones crack -

I could not die - with You -

For One must wait

To shut the Other's Gaze down -

You - could not -

And I - could I stand by

And see You - freeze -

Without my Right of Frost -

Death's privilege？

Nor could I rise - with You -

Because Your Face

Would put out Jesus' -

That New Grace

Glow plain - and foreign

On my homesick Eye -

Except that You than He

Shone closer by -

They'd judge Us - How -

For You - served Heaven - You know，

Or sought to -

I could not -

Because You saturated Sight -

And I had no more Eyes

For sordid excellence

As Paradise

And were You lost， I would be -

Though My Name

Rang loudest

On the Heavenly fame -

And were You - saved -

And I - condemned to be

Where You were not -

That self - were Hell to Me -

So We must meet apart -

You there - I - here -

With just the Door ajar

That Oceans are - and Prayer -

And that White Sustenance -

Despair -