Which needs the other's office, thou or I?

Dost want to be disburdened of a woe,

And can, in truth, my voice untie

Its links, and let it go?

"Art thou a dumb, wronged thing that would be righted,

Entrusting thus thy cause to me? Forbear!

No tongue can mend such pleadings; faith, requited

With falsehood,—love, at last aware

Of scorn,—hopes, early blighted,—

"We have them; but I know not any tone