That covers well from cold within a world

Divine things had not been in, had not whirled

From battlemented light the Demon, Thought;

Whose soul-garment is richest he cannot

See grief nor sorrow plainly, though unfurled

The black, tear-dyed pinions of Death’s own world

A-flutter o’er his head, of horror wrought.

Outside your sheltered warmth, a pilgrim, I

Do come and lowly kneel where you sit high—

Soul-naked do I come as humble ones