Like an after-distress to my gray-bearded father,

With a blight to the last of his sight?—let him rather

Lament for me dead, and shed tears in the urn

Where I was not, and still in fond memory turn

To his son even such as he left him. Oh, how

Could I walk with the youth once my fellows, but now

Like Gods to my humbled estate?—or how bear

The steeds once the pride of my eyes and the care

Of my hands? Then I turn'd me self-banish'd, and came

Into Thessaly here, where I met with the same