Whose very soul is moulded to the yoke,

And stamp’d with servitude. What! is it life

Thus at a breeze to start, to school thy voice

Into low fearful whispers, and to cast

Pale jealous looks around thee, lest, e’en then,

Strangers should catch its echo?—Is there aught

In this so precious, that thy furrow’d cheek

Is blanch’d with terror at the passing thought

Of hazarding some few and evil days,

Which drag thus poorly on?