When I hoped, I recollect

Not a Sleet could bite me —

Not a frost could cool —

Hope it was that kept me warm —

Not Merino shawl —

When I feared — I recollect

Just the Day it was —

Worlds were lying out to Sun —

Yet how Nature froze —

Icicles upon my soul

Prickled Blue and Cool —

Bird went praising everywhere —

Only Me — was still —

And the Day that I despaired —

This — if I forget

Nature will — that it be Night

After Sun has set —

Darkness intersect her face —

And put out her eye —

Nature hesitate — before

Memory and I —