We make ourselves a place apart

Behind light words that tease and flout

But oh the agitated heart

Till someone really find us out.

A 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.