“Nor clad so like a priest, for whom all earth
Will don some Sabbath-day demean; go free
To find the man, hard by his work, at home.”
Thus pleading many days, at last he won;
And, yielding to his wish, the sea I cross’d.
VIII.
Soon, borne to Dresden for a leisure week,
With whom, one morning, should I chance to meet
But Elbert’s elder sister?—now grown staid
And matronly withal, a second wife,