Wreck not the ageing heart of quietness

With alien uproar and rude jolly cries,

Which (satyr-like to a mild maiden’s pride)

Ripen not wisdom but a large recoil;

Give them their withered peace, their trial grave,

Their past youth’s three-scored shadowy effigy.

Mock them not with your ripened turbulence,

Their frost-mailed petulance with your torrid wrath,

When, edging your boisterous thunders, shivers one word

(Pap to their senile sneering, drug to truth,