A bitter-sweetling of a book—was gone.

Then, if internal straggles to be one

Which frittered him incessantly piecemeal,

Referred, ne'er so obliquely, to the real

Intruding Mantuans! ever with some call

To action while he pondered, once for all,

Which looked the easier effort—to pursue

This course, still leap o'er paltry joys, yearn through

The present ill-appreciated stage

Of self-revealment, and compel the age