Have in a breath blasphemed and laughed and wept.

Yet all moods pass. The sea is just the same,

And I am grown old looking on its face.

I know that every wave that laps the strand

Is like to every other wave that comes,

As many follow this one, as the last.

I say my prayers to him, because I know

Somehow that wheresoever he may be

He is awake and hears me. It is sweet

To call around his head the flames of hell,—