Unless, indeed, to prove that I am glad,

Albeit fast wedded to a thought so sad

I scarce can deem that my despair will die,

Or that the sun, careering up the sky,

Will warm again a world that seem'd so mad.

II.

And yet, who knows? The world is, to the mind,

Much as we make it; and the things we tend

Wear, for the nonce, the liveries that we lend.

And some such things are fair, though ill-defined,