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FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE
  
  
  
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FRAGMENT: THOUGHTS COME AND GO IN SOLITUDE

My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!