The little threads of mutual fate

Which touch and tangle soon or late?

“These ‘hindrances’ which made you fret,

These ‘interruptions,’ one by one,

They were but sudden tasks I set,

My errands for your feet to run,

Will you disdain them, child, or shun?”

Oh, blind of heart and dull of soul!

I only felt, the long day through,

That I was thwarted of my goal,