Sonnet II — But only three in all God's universe

But only three in all God's universeHave heard this word thou hast said; Himself, besideThee speaking and me listening! and repliedOne of us . . that was God! . . and laid the curseSo darkly on my eyelids as to amerceMy sight from seeing thee,—that if I had died,The deathweights, placed there, would have signifiedLess absolute exclusion. "Nay" is worseFrom God than from all others, O my friend!Men could not part us with their worldly jars,Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend:Our hands would touch, for all the mountain-bars;—And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,We should but vow the faster for the stars.