He too, that spoke of duty once before,

No otherwise than others here to-day,

Foredone and sick and sadly muttering lay.

‘I know not, I will do—what is it I would say?

What was that word which once sufficed alone for all,

Which now I seek in vain, and never can recall?’

And then, as weary of in vain renewing

His question, thus his mournful thought pursuing,

‘I know not, I must do as other men are doing.’

But what the waters of that pool might be,