V + 

Cleaning the Windows + 

Wash the window; rub it dry; + 

Make the ray-door clean and bright: + 

He who lords it in the sky + 

Loves on cottage floors to light! + 

Looking over sea and beck, + 

Mountain-forest, orchard-bloom, + 

He can spy the smallest speck + 

Anywhere about the room! + 

See how bright his torch is blazing + 

In the heart of mother’s store! + 

Strange! I never saw him gazing + 

So into that press before! + 

Ah, I see!⁠—the wooden pane + 

In the window, dull and dead, + 

Father called its loss a gain, + 

And a glass one put instead! + 

What a difference it makes! + 

How it melts the filmy gloom! + 

What a little more it takes + 

Much to brighten up a room! + 

There I spy a dusty streak! + 

There a corner not quite clean! + 

There a cobweb! There the sneak + 

Of a spider, watching keen! + 

Lord of suns, and eyes that see, + 

Shine into me, see and show; + 

Leave no darksome spot in me + 

Where thou dost not shining go. + 

Fill my spirit full of eyes, + 

Doors of light in every part; + 

Open windows to the skies + 

That no moth corrupt my heart. + 