• I Tell you, hopeless grief is passionless,—
    That only men incredulous of despair,
    Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
    Beat upwards to God’s throne in loud access
    Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
    In souls as countries lieth silent-bare
    Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
    Of the absolute heavens. Deep-hearted man...