A Prison gets to be a friend --

A Prison gets to be a friend --
Between it's Ponderous face
And Our's -- a Kinsmanship express --
And in it's narrow Eyes --

We come to look with gratitude
For the appointed Beam
It deal us -- stated as our food --
And hungered for -- the same --

We learn to know the Planks --
That answer to Our feet --
So miserable a sound -- at first --
Nor even now -- so sweet --

As plashing in the Pools --
When Memory was a Boy --
But a Demurer Measure -- That -- redeem --[^a1]Circuit --
A Geometric Joy --

[^a1: Measure -- That -- redeem -- | Measure -- That -- redeem --]

The Posture of the Key
That interrupt the Day
To Our Endeavor -- Not so true --[^a2]close --[^a3]near[^a4]real
The Cheek of Liberty --

[^a2: true -- | true --]

[^a3: close -- | close --]

[^a4: near | near]

As this Companion[^a5]Phantasm Steel --
Whose features -- Day and Night --
Are present to us -- as Our Own --
And as escapeless -- quite --

[^a5: Companion | Companion]

The narrow Round -- the Stint --
The slow exchange of Hope --
For something passiver -- Content
Too steep for looking up --

The Liberty we knew
Avoided -- As[^a6]like a Dream --
Too wide for any Night but Heaven --
If Even[^a7]That -- indeed -- redeem --

[^a6: As | As]

[^a7: Even | Even]

3.express] exist -- / subsist -- / arise --
5.gratitude] fondness -- / pleasure
7.deal us] furnish