Unsolaced; you 've a century in store!"

But, no: I sadly let the voices wing

Their way i' the upper vacancy, nor test

Truth on this solid as I promised once.

Well, and what is there to be sad about?

The world 's the world, life 's life, and nothing else.

'T is part of life, a property to prize,

That those o' the higher sort engaged i' the world,

Should fancy they can change its ill to good,

Wrong to right, ugliness to beauty: find