they could do it made Henry wicked & away.
But he should have come out and talked.
All the world like a woolen lover
once did seem on Henry's side.
Then came a departure.
Thereafter nothing fell out as it might or ought.
I don't see how Henry, pried
open for all the world to see, survived.
What he has now to say is a long
wonder the world can bear & be.
Once in a sycamore I was glad
all at the top, and I sang.
Hard on the land wears the strong sea
and empty grows every bed.
We associate the sea here with both Berryman’s Mother and his birth, and with Berryman’s Father, his death. This brings back the question whether or not Dream Song 1 is about Berrymans Father’s death.
Dream Song 1