This wondrous frame, so often sinn'd against,—
Unwarp'd and undispeptic, gave to life
A higher zest.
Year after year swept by,
And Conrad's symmetry of form and face
Grew more conspicuous. Yet he fail'd to win
Approval from the pious, or desire
To seek him as companion for their sons.
—At school and college he defied restraint,
And round the associates of his idle hours