If there should come a hand

Drawing this tired head to a place of rest

On a most loving breast;

And as one felt that one could almost bear

To tell the whole long sickening trivial tale

Of how one came so utterly to fail

Of all one once knew that one might attain—

If one should feel consoling arms about,

Shutting one in, shutting the black past out—

Should feel the tears that washed one clean again,