Of Time, with circumstance and force

Invest this nothing of a name?"

And one his thought would thus declare,

"Our fooling makes this fellow blithe,

He joys to see conjecture writhe

And flutter in the wordy snare."

Thereat one wiselier—"Watch and see

(When Time be ripe, which now is rathe)

His Titan-touch unfold the swathe

That darkly wraps the great 'To be.'"