Thou yet, we think, somewhere somehow still art,

And satisfied with that the patient heart

The where and how doth not desire to hear.

VII

Shall I decide it by a random shot?

Our happy hopes, so happy and so good,

Are not mere idle motions of the blood;

And when they seem most baseless, most are not.

A seed there must have been upon the spot

Where the flowers grow, without it ne’er they could;