Though for a marriage-feast it rings: each stroke

Peals for a hope the less; the funeral note

Of Love deep-buried, without resurrection,

In the grave of Possession; while the knoll[191]10

Of long-lived parents finds a jovial echo

To triple time in the son's ear.

I'm cold—

I'm dark;—I've blown my fingers—numbered o'er

And o'er my steps—and knocked my head against

Some fifty buttresses—and roused the rats