As something cold and cumbersome, that armor men use against death.

You would perchance look on death face to face and from him wrest the secret

Whether his face wears oftenest a smile or no?

Strange, old and silent being, there is something

Infinitely vast in your intense tininess:

I think you could point out with a smile some curious star

Far off in the heavens which no man has seen before.

IV

The morning is clean and blue, and the wind blows up the clouds:

Now my thoughts, gathered from afar,