Brief joy I gave, for years of discontent.’

‘Gone, is it true? but oft he went before,

And came again before a month was o’er.

Gone—though I could not venture upon art,

It was perhaps a foolish pride in part;

He had such ready fancies in his head,

And really was so easy to be led;

One might have failed; and yet I feel ’twas pride,

And can’t but half repent I never tried.

Gone, is it true? but he again will come,