Preserved and sanctified by inward light,

They would complain that comfort, shut from them,

I drank thus unespied; that they live on,

Nor taste the quiet of a constant joy,

For ache and care and doubt and weariness,

While I am calm; help being vouchsafed to me,

And hid from them.—'T were best consider that!

You reason well, Aprile; but at least

Let me know this, and die! Is this too much?

I will learn this, if God so please, and die!