Sonnet

To-night the world is but a prison house,

And kindly ways, and all the springing grass

Are dungeon stones to him that may not pass

Among them, save with anguish on his brows:

And any wretched husbandman that ploughs

The upland acres in his habit spare

Is king, to those in palaces of glass

Who sit with grief and weariness for spouse.

O God, who madest first the world that we