Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels of Being slow.
Source: In Memoriam, 50 (Note: the stanza numbers used here refer to the later edn. of the poem which includes the additional stanza 39)
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.