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 -

    Like a Cup -

    Discarded of the Housewife -

    Quaint - 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 -