"Pushed thus into a drowsy copse,

Arms twine about my neck, each eyelid drops

Under a humid finger; while there fleets,

Outside the screen, a pageant time repeats

Never again! To be deposed, immured

While renunciation ensures despair.

Clandestinely—still petted, still assured

To govern were fatiguing work—the Sight

Fleeting meanwhile! 'T is noontide: wreak ere night

Somehow my will upon it, rather! Slake