You take my heart with tears
P. Fricker
You take my heart with tears;
I battle uselessly;
Reft of all hopes and doubts and fears,
Lie quietly.
You veil my heart with cloud;
Since faith is dim and blind,
I can but grope perplex'd and bow'd,
Seek till I find.
Yet bonds are life to me;
How else could I perceive
The love in each wild artery
That bids me live?