A clod in breast: had loved, and vainly loved:

Whence blight and blackness, just for all the world

As Byron used to teach us boys. Thought I—

'Quick rid him of that rubbish! Clear the cloud,

And set the heart a-pulsing!'—heart, this time:

'T was nothing but the head I doctored late

For ignorance of Man; now heart 's to dose,

Palsied by over-palpitation due

To Woman-worship—so, to work at once

On first avowal of the patient's ache!