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 there they are.