"Reflected possibilities of pain,

Forsooth, just chasten pleasure! Pain itself,—

Fact and not fancy, does not this affect

The general color?"

"Here and there a touch

Taught me, betimes, the artifice of things—

That all about, external to myself,

Was meant to be suspected,—not revealed

Demonstrably a cheat,—but half seen through,

Lest white should rule unchecked along the line