Wall

“And I have known the eyes already, known them all—And how should I presume?”

“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian.”

“Before I built a wall I’d ask to knowThat wants it down.”

“There are frequent moments when we feel lower than the lowest of mankind, and this opinion of ourselves isolates us. Hence the rumor that all flesh is base comes almost as a message of hope. It breaks down the wall that has kept us apart, and we feel one with humanity.”

“But it was only fantasy.And the worms ate into his brain.”

“A prison wall was round us both,Had caught us in its snare.”