This Hand, whose beauty I praise, apart

From the world of wonder left to praise,

If I tried to learn the other ways

Of love in its skill, or love in its power.

"As like as a Hand to another Hand:"

Who said that, never took his stand,

Found and followed, like me, an hour,

The beauty in this,—how free, how fine

To fear, almost,—of the limit-line!

As I looked at this, and learned and drew,