But this gigantic juvenility,

This offering of a big arm's bony hand—

I'd rather shake than feel shake me, I know—

Had moved my dainty mistress to admire

An altogether new Ideal—deem

Idolatry less due to life's decline

Productive of experience, powers mature

By dint of usage, the made man—no boy

That's all to make! I was the earlier bird—

And what I found, I let fall; what you missed,