While yet in early Greece she sung,

I’m pleased, and yet I’m sad.

In sceptred pall come sweeping by,

O, thou, the nymph with placid eye,

By Philip’s warlike son;

And on the light fantastic toe

Thus hand-in-hand through life we’ll go;

Good-night to Marmion.

LIFE.

1.—Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?