For which a single visit would suffice;

And this, for scarce a day, need check my work;

Or, if I linger’d longer, all my life

Lay still before me. Wherefore haste away?

Fate might be beckoning!—“Nay, I should not leave,”

Sigh’d hope, too warm, at last, by more than half;

Then roused sweet echoes of faint hints, recall’d

From churchly sources, of one’s need to wed,

If he would work the best, for all, with all.

Thus, like two cowards, clinging each to each,