Weak, but not fainting—“All,” said he, “is well!
Return with me—I have no more to seek!”
And this was all the woful man would speak. 280
Quickly he settled all his worldly views,
And sail’d from home, his fiercer pains to lose
And nurse the milder—now with labour less }
He might his solitary world possess, }
And taste the bitter-sweet of love in idleness. }
Greece was the land he chose; a mind decay’d }
And ruin’d there through glorious ruin stray’d; }