Each heart-beat with her wrongs, that were fierce food

Unto my hate that, "Courage!" cried, "Rest not!

Think of her there, and let thy haste be hot!"

XIII

But months went by and still I had not found:

Yet, here and there, as wearily I sought,

I caught some news: how he had held his ground

Against the Roundhead troops; or how he'd fought

Then fled—returned and conquered. Like a hound