A kind of Death comes o'er us all alone,

Seeing what's meant for many with but one.

LVIII.

A neat, snug study on a winter's night,[FB]

A book, friend, single lady, or a glass

Of claret, sandwich, and an appetite,

Are things which make an English evening pass—

Though certes by no means so grand a sight

As is a theatre lit up by gas—

I pass my evenings in long galleries solely,[FC][289]