The Inevitable

WHILE I was fearing it, it came,

      But came with less of fear,

Because that fearing it so long

      Had almost made it dear.

There is a fitting a dismay,

      A fitting a despair.

'Tis harder knowing it is due,

      Than knowing it is here.

The trying on the utmost,

      The morning it is new,

Is terribler than wearing it

      A whole existence through.