It was in some way, justly says the sage.

One sees not how, while husbanding regrets;

While tossing scorn abroad from righteous rage,

High vision is obscured; for this is age

When robbed—more infant than the babe it frets.

V.

Yet see Athenians treading the black path

Laid by a prince's shadow! well content

To wait his pleasure, shivering at his wrath:

They bow to their accepted Orient