Oh, quiet moments, simply put in threads of Golden Time I rest in flowing sweetness' arms of Yesterday's Delights. But give me hope, thou cursèd sands-- let part of Fate be mine Though cloaked close-girdled messengers should riddle all my nights! For in my days, I know my worth, I must of needs be heard By He whose ears do funnel all the verdicts home to close. Just grant me one small ray of life that I might in my word Begin to split the very grain of doubt that darkness shows. For I am calm. And in my calm is strength whose fibres wax As every second slips so poorly past its marking point. Submit, thou judgment passing, and admit the firmness lacks In that simple crude composite of Time's mortise-tenon joint. For time in futile pace of clear pusuit breeds but defeat Without its feathered dream whose floating hopes one day must meet.