“The limit of his narrower fate”—
when he “play’d at counsellors and kings” with some lad long ago left behind in his native obscurity; and who now resting on his plough, musingly asks,
“Does my old friend remember me?”
LXV.
He clings to the memory of Hallam, yet would resign himself to his loss—
“Sweet soul, do with me as thou wilt.”
All that he can resolve is, to cherish every grain of love; and in doing so, there springs up the “happy thought,” that if his own nature has been elevated by intercourse with Hallam, why may not a like result have been reflected from himself on his friend?
“Since we deserved the name of friends,
And thine effect so lives in me,
A part of mine may live in thee,
And move thee on to noble ends.”
LXVI.
He accounts for his cheerfulness to some one, who had wondered that being so far diseased in heart he could ever be gay.