I judged resentment; I mistook the air, -
These fainter passions live not with despair;
Or but exist and die: - Hope, fear, and love,
Joy, doubt, and hate, may other spirits move,
But touch not his, who every waking hour
Has one fix’d dread, and always feels its power.
“But will not mercy?” - No! she cannot plead
For such an outrage; - ’twas a cruel deed:
He stopp’d a timid traveller; - to his breast,
With oaths and curses, was the danger press’d: -