Returns to join the main, and struggles free

Above the willows, gurgling thro’ the piles:

Nothing is changed, and yet how changed are we!

—What can bring Godfrey to the Muses’ bower?

GODFREY

What but brings you? The festal day of the year;

To live in boyish memories for an hour;

See and be seen: tho’ you come seldom here.

RICHARD

Dread of the pang it was, fear to behold