Believe 't, that sorrow truest is, which lies
60Deep in the breast, not floating in the eyes:
And he with saddest circumstance doth part,
Who seals his farewell with a bleeding heart.
The Departure.] The special title of this poem was not in Hannah's MS.
6 largest] MS. 'larger'.
47 An irregular line of this kind (for it is practically an Alexandrine) is so very rare in King that one suspects an error, but Hannah notes no MS. variant. Many, perhaps most, contemporary poets would not have hesitated at 'serv'ce', which with 'I'd' adjusts the thing; but our Bishop is seldom rough and still seldomer licentious.
53 this] MS. 'the'.
56 Orig. 'plommets'.