Your health be sound again.”
“Be sound?” he ask’d; “and can it be
That you misjudge me too?
Ah, not the thing you deem, set free
The smile that welcomed you.
“Nay, friend, but wisdom learn from one
Who long on earth has wrought;
Our ways would leave us wrecks undone,
If but of earth we thought.
“A double life we all must live,—