Freedom and widening space: his life expands,

Ready, it seems, to burst the iron bands

Of self, to fuse with other lives and be

Not one but the world, no longer “I” but “She.”

See, like the dolorous memory

Of happy times in misery,

An aged hansom fills the street

With the superannuated beat

Of hollow hoofs and bells that chime

Out of another quieter time.