QUOTE : XIV: A WELL. What mystery pervades a well!<br />The water lives so far,<br />Like neighbor from another world<br />Residing in a jar.<br />The grass does not appear afraid;<br />I often wonder he<br />Can stand so close and look so bold<br />At what is dread to me.<br />Related somehow they may be, —<br />The sedge stands next the sea,<br />Where he is floorless, yet of fear<br />No evidence gives he. But nature is a stranger yet;<br />The ones that cite her most<br />Have never passed her haunted house,<br />Nor simplified her ghost.<br />To pity those that know her not<br />Is helped by the regret<br />That those who know her, know her less The nearer her they get.