Part II: A Boy’s Will — Revelation

— Robert Frost

WE make ourselves a place apart

   Behind light words that tease and flout,

But oh, the agitated heart

   Till someone find us really out.

 

’Tis pity if the case require

   (Or so we say) that in the end

We speak the literal to inspire

   The understanding of a friend.

 

But so with all, from babes that play

   At hide-and-seek to God afar,

So all who hide too well away

   Must speak and tell us where they are.