The Dark Fire

Love me not less     Yet ease me of this fever,     That in my wondering heart     Burns, sinks, burns again ever.     Is it your love     In me so fiercely burning,     Or my love leaping to you     Then requickened returning?     Come not to me,     Bring not your body nearer,     Though you overleapt the miles     I could not behold you clearer.     I could not clasp you     Than in my thought more surely;     Breast to breast, heart to heart     Might cling no more securely.     I do not know you,     Seeing you, more than unseeing.     What you are that you are     Here in my spiritual being.     Leave me you cannot,     Nor can I remove me     From the sevenfold dark fire     You have lit here since you love me.     Yet love unsure     No wilder could be burning.     Come, go, come, go,     There's neither leaving nor returning.     Love me, love me more.     O, not my heart shall quaver     If the dark fire more deep     Sinks and is sevenfold sevenfold graver.