Between the naked window-bars

That spacious vigil of the stars?

For thou, a watcher even as they,

Wouldst rise from where throughout the day

Thou wroughtest raiment for his poor;

And, finding the fixed terms endure

Of day and night which never brought

Sounds of his coming chariot,

Wouldst lift through cloud-waste unexplor'd

Those eyes which said “How long, O Lord”?