From the debts not due till to-morrow.

CCCXXIV.

Wherefore else does the Spirit fly

And bid its daily cares good-bye,

Along with its daily clothing?

Just as the felon condemn'd to die—

With a very natural loathing—

Leaving the Sheriff to dream of ropes,

From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,

To a caper on sunny gleams and slopes,