And that short space which yet for him remain’d,

Till with his limbs his faculties were chain’d:

He paced his narrow bounds some ease to find,

But found it not, - no comfort reach’d his mind:

Each sense was palsied; when he tasted food,

He sigh’d and said, “Enough - ’tis very good.”

Since his dread sentence, nothing seem’d to be

As once it was - he seeing could not see,

Nor hearing, hear aright; - when first I came

Within his view, I fancied there was shame,