Punishment + 

Mourner, that dost deserve thy mournfulness, + 

Call thyself punished, call the earth thy hell; + 

Say, “God is angry, and I earned it well⁠— + 

I would not have him smile on wickedness:” + 

Say this, and straightway all thy grief grows less:⁠— + 

“God rules at least, I find as prophets tell, + 

And proves it in this prison!”⁠—then thy cell + 

Smiles with an unsuspected loveliness. + 

—“A prison⁠—and yet from door and window-bar + 

I catch a thousand breaths of his sweet air! + 

Even to me his days and nights are fair! + 

He shows me many a flower and many a star! + 

And though I mourn and he is very far, + 

He does not kill the hope that reaches there!” + 