So sleep thou on, secure whate'er betide!

For thou, too, hast thy problem hard to solve—

How so much beauty is compatible

With so much innocence!

Fit place, methinks,

While in this task she rosily is lost,

To treat of and repel objection here

Which,—frivolous, I grant,—my mind misgives,

May somehow still have flitted, gadfly-like,

And teased the Court at times—as if, all said