It means, perchance, that I must make an end

Of all these things, and burn them as a fee

To my Despair, when down upon my knee.

O piteous thing! have pity; be my friend;

Or say, at least, that blessings will descend

On her I love, on her if not on me!

VII.

The Shape did smile; and, wildly, with a start,

Did shrivel up, as when a fire is spent,

Whereof the smoke obscured the firmament.