A great Hope fell

A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in

The mind was built for mighty Freight For dread occasion planned How often foundering at Sea Ostensibly, on Land

A not admitting of the wound Until it grew so wide That all my Life had entered it And there were troughs beside

A closing of the simple lid That opened to the sun Until the tender Carpenter Perpetual nail it down --