Of the perplexed in spirit?

Was it not

Almighty Time, and ever-during Fate—

My lords and thine—that shaped and fashioned me

Into the MAN I am?

Belike it was thy dream

That I should hate life—fly to wastes and wilds,

For that the buds of visionary thought

Did not all ripen into goodly flowers?

Here do I sit and mould