Ljocht nedich haw Ik net -
Dy leavje - is in Prismaglês -
Oertreft it Fiolet -
Ik sjoch dy better troch de Tiid
Dy’t him dertusken wrot -
In Kompelslampe - is genôch -
En ban de Mynskacht fuort -
It bêst sjoch Ik Dy - yn it Grêf -
Syn Skotsjes glimme op -
Hiel roazich - fan it Ljocht dat Ik,
Foar Dy, heech holden haw -
Wa hat Ferlet fan Dei -
Waans Nacht - in Sinne - sa yn baarnt -
As toevet sy - oan ien Tried wei -
By de Meridiaan?
I do not need a Light -
The Love of Thee - a Prism be -
Excelling Violet -
I see thee better for the Years
That hunch themselves between -
The Miner’s Lamp - sufficient be -
To nullify the Mine -
And in the Grave - I see Thee best -
It’s little Panels be
A’glow - All ruddy - with the Light
I held so high, for Thee -
What need of Day -
To Those whose Dark - hath so - surpassing Sun -
It deem it be - Continually -
At the Meridian?
F442 (J611). Ofbyldings: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. YouTube: Josephine Foster, ‘I See Thee Better In The Dark’, 2009.
