Neighbor — and friend — and Bridegroom,Spinning upon the Shoals —How they will tell the Story —When Winter shake the Door —Till the Children urge — But the Forty —Did they — come back no more?Then a softness — suffuses the Story —And a silence — the Teller's eye —And the Children — no further question —And only the Sea — reply —* * *621I asked no other thing —No other — was denied —I offered Being — for it —The Mighty Merchant sneered —Brazil? He twirled a Button —Without a glance my way —But — Madam — is there nothing else —That We can show — Today?* * *657I dwell in Possibility —A fairer House than Prose —More numerous of Windows —Superior — for Doors —Of Chambers as the Cedars —Impregnable of Eye —And for an Everlasting RoofThe Gambrels of the Sky —Of Visitors — the fairest —For Occupation — This —The spreading wide my narrow HandsTo gather Paradise —* * *680Each Life Converges to some Centre —Expressed — or still —Exists in every Human NatureA Goal —Embodied scarcely to itself- it may be —Too fairFor Credibility's presumptionTo mar —Adored with caution- as a Brittle Heaven —To reachWere hopeless Rainbow's RaimentTo touch —Yet persevered toward —sure- for the distance;How high —Unto the Saints slow diligence —The Sky —Ungained- it may be —by a Life's low Venture —But then —Eternity enables the endeavoringAgain.* * *