Who is the friend i' the background that notes all?

Who may come presently and close accounts?

This self-possession to the uttermost,

How does it differ in aught, save degree,

From the terrible patience of God?

"All which just means,

She did not love you!" Again the word is launched

And the fact fronts me! What, you try the wards

With the true key and the dead lock flies ope?

No, it sticks fast and leaves you fumbling still!