Thou shalt not find me in the clay!

I pierce a little wall of gloom

To mingle with the day!

I brothered with the things that pass,

Poor giddy joy and puckered grief;

I go to brother with the grass

And with the sunning leaf.

Not death can sheathe me in a shroud;

A joy-sword whetted keen with pain,

I join the armies of the cloud,