Fest. Your aims? the aims?—to Know? and where is found

The early trust ...

Par. Nay, not so fast; I say,

The aims—not the old means. You know they made me

A laughing-stock; I was a fool; you know

The when and the how: hardly those means again!

Not but they had their beauty; who should know

Their passing beauty, if not I? Still, dreams

They were, so let them vanish, yet in beauty

If that may he. Stay: thus they pass in song!