Referring to some state of life unknown.

My selfishness is satiated not,

It wears me like a flame; my hunger for

All pleasure, howsoe'er minute, grows pain;

I envy—how I envy him whose soul

Turns its whole energies to some one end,

To elevate an aim, pursue success

However mean! So, my still baffled hope

Seeks out abstractions; I would have one joy,

But one in life, so it were wholly mine,