I look on the sky and the sea—

      We were two to love, and two to pray,—

Yes, two, O God, who cried to Thee,

      Though nothing didst Thou say.

Coldly Thou sat'st behind the sun!

And now I cry who am but one,

      How wilt Thou speak to-day?—

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