I CAME -- I know not through how many a gate, A long, long way; not early and not late, When I arrived unto my Last Estate. I found me stripped of all I had before, The dross, the husks, that once I held as store -- My naked affluence needed these no more. No eyes, when past the final gate I drew -- Yet had I sight, to pierce things through and through; Nor ears -- I needed not to hear: I knew! I servants had before. Now, none did wait; Fulfilled was all desire -- on instant date ... Oh, naked affluence of my Last Estate! |