But my thought was otherwhere;
As soon as the midday task was done,
In secret I was there;
And a mighty wind had swept[1143] the leaves,
And still the corpse[1144] was bare.
“Then down I cast me[1145] on my face,
And first began to weep,
For I knew my secret then was one
That earth refused to keep—
Or land or sea, though he should be