And hasten off, to play again elsewhere

The same part, choose another peak as bare,

They find and flatter, feast and finish there.

When you see what I tell you,—nature dance

About each man of us, retire, advance,

As though the pageant's end were to enhance

His worth, and—once the life, his product, gained—

Roll away elsewhere, keep the strife sustained,

And show thus real, a thing the North but feigned—

When you acknowledge that one world could do