Which led my fancy forth. This bitter morn

Showed me no object in the stretch forlorn

Of garden-ground beneath my window, backed

By yon worn wall wherefrom the creeper, tacked

To clothe its brickwork, hangs now, rent and racked

By five months' cruel winter,—showed no torn

And tattered ravage worse for eyes to see

Than just one ugly space of clearance, left

Bare even of the bones which used to be

Warm wrappage, safe embracement: this one cleft—