An outer court for me within my garden,

That it may mock me better in its own!

But whether Hell or rank mortality,

This garden which I builded for my body

Is the one garden now wherein my soul

Finds comfort, benediction of the twilight.

There in my cell, drawn on the walls, arise

Old memories of craft and violence,

Of lust for carven images of beauty:

How in the night I sent my men to take