He Touched Me

<p>506<br/><br/>He touched me, so I live to know<br/>That such a day, permitted so<br/>I groped upon his breast<span><br/>It was a boundless place to me<br/>And silenced, as the awful sea<br/>Puts minor streams to rest<br/><br/>And now, I&#x27;m different from before<br/>As if I breathed superior air<br/>Or brushed a Royal Gown<span><br/>My feet, too, that had wandered so<br/>My Gypsy face—transfigured now<br/>To tenderer Renown<br/>Into this Port, if I might come<br/>Rebecca, to Jerusalem<br/>Would not so ravished turn<br/>Nor Persian, baffled at her shrine<br/>Lift such a Crucifixial sign<br/>To her imperial Sun