Futility: my soul, and my soul's home

This body,—how each operates on each,

And how things outside, fact or feigning, teach

What good is and what evil,—just the same,

Be feigning or be fact the teacher,—blame

Diffidence nowise if, from this I judge

My point of vantage, not an inch I budge.

All—for myself—seems ordered wise and well

Inside it,—what reigns outside, who can tell?

Contrariwise, who needs be told 'The space