Now let me bear with spirit meek

An hour of pure and perfect bliss.

XVIII.

But do ye look indeed as friends?

Is there no change? Are [ye not] cold?

Oh! I do dread that Fortune lends

Fictitious good!—that I behold, 140

To lose, these treasures, which of old

Were all my glory, all my pride:

May not these arms that form infold?