You stranger, long before your glance can light + 

Upon these words, time will have washed away + 

The moment when I first took pen to write, + 

With all my road before me⁠—yet to-day, + 

Here, if at all, we meet: the unfashioned clay + 

Ready to both our hands; both hushed to see + 

That which is nowhere yet come forth and be. + 