From her fancy-men.”
Such a woman has even made him merry like his fiddling ancestor, in the song of “The Dark-eyed Gentleman,”—
“And he came and he tied up my garter for me.”
And what with Nature and Beauty and Truth he is really farther from surrender than might appear in some poems. His “Let me enjoy”—
“Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight”—
is in the minor key, but by no means repudiates or makes little of Joy, and is at least as likely as,
“Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round,”