For, now I mind me, sight as well was false.

You have not doffed the ring since wearing it,

You have not lost it, did not find it gone—

Yet still I had the thought—my glance was keen,

And it was morning and I saw all else,

’Twas missing from your hand. So it would seem

Sense tallies here with sense. The blinded eye

Bears out the blunted ear. Then pardon me

For giving you such hurt of heart, and grant

An hour alone to balance my tossed mind.