Who yield up to pleasure your nights and your days,
Forgetful of service, forgetful of praise.
Ye lazy philosophers—self-seeking men,—
Ye fireside philanthropists, great at the pen,
How stands in the balance your eloquence weighed
With the life and the deeds of that high-born maid?
[255] Sumˊ-mons, a call.
[256] Trapˊ-pings, ornaments.
[257] Tendˊ-ing, attending; keeping.
[258] Morˊ-ti-fied, subdued; humbled.