Than fiery song may breathe, deep thought explore;

And there thou smilest, while my heart is dying,

With all its blighted hopes around it lying:

Even thou, on whom they hung their last green leaf——

Yet smile, smile on! too bright art thou for grief!

Death! What! is death a lock’d and treasured thing,

Guarded by swords of fire?[343] a hidden spring,

A fabled fruit, that I should thus endure,

As if the world within me held no cure?

Wherefore not spread free wings——Heaven, heaven! control