Luce Adorabile

You came to me when I had turned and said:—"This, in my darkened life can never be,My ways are in the stumbler's paths instead!"You came to meHigh and unprejudiced and spirit free.Wearing God's seal upon your pure forehead,Dearest, you bent from your bright way to seeMy flickering torch: your own, live-flashing, redRekindled the faint flame. Thus holily,A radiance, a light when light had fled,You came to me.