To churlish nurture and the wide world's fretting,

For alien pity and unnatural care;—

Alas! to see how the cold dew kept wetting

His childish coats, and dabbled all his hair,

Like gossamers across his forehead fair."

LXXXI.

"His pretty pouting mouth, witless of speech,

Lay half-way open like a rose-lipp'd shell;

And his young cheek was softer than a peach,

Whereon his tears, for roundness, could not dwell,