And weep as if I had not wept before,

And think of words about me I have heard,

And with old thoughts grieve over them some more.

But soon, if I get up, or sit and gaze,

Telling myself stories of joyous thought

Before the warm and cheery, singing blaze,

Now all my bad thoughts in a trap are caught;

And if I gaze at castles in the fire,

Then all the while to gladness I grow nigher.

The Unknown Race