All ironies have made their moving house

Of me. I smile to think how many a letter

Has passed from loved to lover thanks to Tous

"The loveless. Think you men alone are lonely,

My masters? I have also worshipped one,

Have built my days of faith and service only,

And while I worshipped all my life was gone.

I spent the funds of life in growing older,

In heaping fuel on a smothered fire.

See how my tale is rounded! On my shoulder