“Ye know not how void is your hope and your living:
Depart with your helping lest yet ye undo me!”

Love is Enough (1872), Song IV: Draw Near and Behold Me
Context: Ye know not how void is your hope and your living:
Depart with your helping lest yet ye undo me!
Ye know not that at nightfall she draweth near to me,
There is soft speech between us and words of forgiving
Till in dead of the midnight her kisses thrill through me.
— Pass by me and harken, and waken me not!

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