Its utmost at the soonest; turn the leaf

Thoroughly conned. These lays of yours, in brief—

Cannot men hear, now, something better?—fly

A pitch beyond this unreal pageantry

Of essences? the period sure has ceased

For such: present us with ourselves, at least,

Not portions of ourselves, mere loves and hates

Made flesh: wait not!"

Tries again, is no better satisfied,

Awhile the poet waits