A cloud of the deep world despair that fills

A man’s heart like the incoming tide and kills

All pains except its own. In that broad sea

No hope, no change, and no regret can be.

4

He felt the eternal strength of the silly earth,

The unhastening circuit of the stars and sea,

The business of perpetual death and birth,

The meaningless precision. All must be

The same and still the same in each degree—