Were mine the trusty staff that Jewel gave

To youthful Hooker in familiar style

The gift exalting, and with playful smile.[9]

For thus equipped, and bearing on his head

The donor’s farewell blessing, can he dread

Tempest, or length of way, or weight of toil?

More sweet than odours caught by him who sails

Near spicy shores of Araby the blest;

A thousand times more exquisitely sweet

The freight of holy feeling which we meet