Built up and peopled by my brain,

Weighing its merits as one weighs

Mere theories for blame or praise,

—The kingcraft of the Lucumons,

Or Fourier's scheme, its pros and cons,—

But my faith there, or none at all.

"How were my case, now, did I fall

Dead here, this minute—should I lie

Faithful or faithless?" Note that I

Inclined thus ever!—little prone