I have addressed a frock of heavy mail

Yet may not join the troop of sacred knights;

And now the forest-creatures fly from me,

The grass-banks cool, the sunbeams warm no more.

Best follow, dreaming that ere night arrive,

I shall o'ertake the company and ride

Glittering as they!

Fest. I think I apprehend

What you would say: if you, in truth, design

To enter once more on the life thus left,