the ripeness all

Well, who in his own backyard
Has not opened his heart to the smiling
Secret he cannot quote?
Which goes to show that the Bard
Was sober when he wrote
That this world of fact we love
Is unsubstantial stuff:
All the rest is silence
On the other side of the wall;
And the silence ripeness,
And the ripeness all.
[W.H. Auden, from 'The Sea and the Mirror' {a commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest} in Selected Poems]