And gossips round expecting my surprise

At the sudden hole through earth that lets in heaven.

I could believe himself by his strong will

Had woven around me what I thought the world

We went along in, every circumstance,

Towns, flowers and faces, all things helped so well!

For, through the journey, was it natural

Such comfort should arise from first to last?

As I look back, all is one milky way;

Still bettered more, the more remembered, so