When I hoped, I recol-
lect
Just the place I stood –
⁺At a Window facing 
West –
Roughest Air – was good –

 

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 opon 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 –

 

+ In a Chamber + No No–
vember cool + Worlds were
swimming in the Sun –  lying
+ Raw and cool + Still Myself –
Me alone + When the Sun
is set + Dark shall over-
take the Hill – Overtake the sky.