And me a foolish seer.

STROPHE II.

Full-blooded health, that in the veins

With lusty pulses hotly wells,

Shall soon have check. Disease beside it

Wall to wall, ill-sundered, dwells.

The proud trireme, with sudden shock,

In its mid career, on a sunken rock

Strikes, and all is lost.

Yet there is hope; the ship may rein