And comes no higher than to my knees.

I step right over it—pick a flower,

Purple, it may be, called heart's ease

And go with the way of the seas.

For I am an optimist better than you:

This dream is hell, but it's all to the good:

The Ocean is water in calm or flood.

There's nothing wrecked, or wrongly wrought,

There's nothing real but Thought!