A Perfect Time, He Found For Me Comments

I had students who would always show respect by typing only G_d. Is that what is meant by the last line, OR has the speaker expired from exposure. This is a Journey Poem but it seems to be the very bitter end, not of the journey but the journeyer. It moves very swiftly by leaping over opportunities to explain things, For example, the horse dies before the 2nd stanza. The fused metaphors of stanzas 3 & 4 are remarkable, also present without comment. For a poem which mentions God several times, I was aware mostly of his absence.