I.
Fear comes in sleep, and all along the way
That souls must travel between day and day.
In sleep my soul sought sanctuary,
But, to the place of healing,
Fear followed all the way,
And when I knelt to pray,
Lo ! Fear beside me kneeling.
II.
Fear’s garment is the shadow and the dark.
As rustling leaves her step that makes no mark,
Waking, I sought to hide me,
And through the open door
I fled, but in the wood
Beneath each tree Fear stood,
And followed on the moor.
III.
The moving waters called me,
But from the changing sea
Whereon my vessel sailed,
Although her face was veiled,
Fear’s eyes looked up at me.
And in thine eyes, Belov’d, when I came near
And looked, I saw the mirrored face of Fear.
(Ethel Clifford)
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