"You see, my friends, I tired of this

Wild doubling in the chase of bliss.

Pards miss their spring as men their kiss,

And yet the quarry dies.

I learned the world's least mortal god,

Whose epitaph is Ichabod,

May sport till noon, but if he nod

Shall never more arise.

Then, caravan, you passed, and I

Have solved my riddle with a cry: