Or if I say them, ’tis as one long blind
Forgets the sights that he was used to name.
Now if men speak of love, ’tis not my love;
Nor are their hopes nor joys mine, nor their life
Of praise the life that I think honour of:
Nay tho’ they turn from house and child and wife
And self, and in the thought of heaven above
Hold, as do I, all mortal things at strife.
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Since then ’tis only pity looking back,