And shuts us from the waste beyond His peace,

From maddening freedom and bewildering light.

SHAWN BRUIN.

Would that the world were mine to give it you

With every quiet hearth and barren waste,

The maddening freedom of its woods and tides,

And the bewildering light upon its hills.

MAIRE BRUIN.

Then I would take and break it in my hands

To see you smile watching it crumble away.