To tempt, as well as bless me?—Could it be
That love could yet be mine?—The hope seem’d sweet;
Yet strange!—Why strange?—The change?—
Seem’d all change so?—
Yet marriage?—Why did mortals marry then?—
For love, they said, for love. And what was love?
What more than liking well?—Whom liked I so;
And all in all, and always?—Edith?—What?—
And liked her calling?—If I liked not that,
I liked not her, not wholly. If not her,