In the darksome deep that around me hung,

And that seem’d to have never a goal.

XXVIII.

Alone, alone; in the deep alone,

Of an awful, soulless world unknown!

And there was I—but I could still

Think of such thoughts, as us’d to fill

Mine eyes with tears: and tears had then

Been sweet as sunlight seen again.

But tears were none, and never an eye