And I considered, his openness was hardening them that mocked,
Whereas a judicious keeping-back might have won their sympathy:
I have judged rashly and harshly the hand, liberal in the dark,
Because in the broad daylight, it hath holden it a virtue to be close;
And the silent tongue have I condemned, because reserve hath chained it,
That it hid, yea from a brother, the kindness it had done by comforting.
No need to sound a trumpet, but less to hush a footfall:
Do thou thy good openly, not as though the doing were a crime.
Secresy goeth cowled, and Honesty demandeth wherefore?
For he judgeth—judgeth he not well?—that nothing need be hid but guilt.