And sacrament,—nor care if people know.

Such men—so minded—do exist, God knows,

And, God be thanked, this was not one of those.

Late in the night, at a provincial town

In France, a passing traveller was put down;

Haggard he looked, his hair was turning grey,

His hair, his clothes, were much in disarray:

In a bedchamber here one day he stayed,

Wrote letters, posted them, his reckoning paid

And went. ’Twas Edward rushing from his fall