E’en those to whom your smiles were wont to seem

As light is unto flowers. Search well the depths

Of bosoms in whose keeping you would shrine

The secret of your state. Storms pass not by

Leaving earth’s face unchanged.

Seb. Whence didst thou learn

The cold distrust which casts so deep a shadow

O’er a most noble nature?

Gon. Life hath been

My stern and only teacher. I have known