Recalling you, the worldling could forget
How walls exclusive could exclude not love?
Or, love rejecting, gain from all the world,
Though brimm’d with but applause, one draft so sweet?—
But then earth held such promise yet, so lured;
How could I know that merely sighs there were
Could thrill me more than all its thunders could?
Ah, did I love you then, so loves he heaven
Who has not courage yet to leave the world.
I might have left it never; but, you know,