The widest range of human lore,

Or, with unfetter’d fancy, fly

Thro’ airy heights of poesy,

Pausing, smiles with alter’d air,

To see thee climb his elbow-chair,

Or, struggling on the mat below,

Hold warfare with his slipper’d toe.

The widow’d dame, or lonely maid,

Who in the still but cheerless shade

Of home unsocial, spends her age,