| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IV. “As some dark stream within a cavern’s breast” | | By Anne Charlotte Lynch (1815–1891) |
| | | AS some dark stream within a cavern’s breast | |
| Flows murmuring, moaning for the distant sun,— | |
| So, ere I met thee, murmuring its unrest, | |
| Did my life’s current coldly, darkly run. | |
| And as that stream beneath the sun’s full gaze | 5 |
| Its separate course and life no more maintains, | |
| But now absorbed, transfused, far o’er the plains | |
| It floats, etherealized in those warm rays,— | |
| So, in the sunlight of thy fervid love, | |
| My heart, so long to earth’s dark channels given, | 10 |
| Now soars, all doubt, all pain, all ill above, | |
| And breathes the ether of the upper heaven; | |
| So thy high spirit holds and governs mine, | |
| So is my life, my being, lost in thine. | | | | |
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