Lived in days in vain lamented,—

Had lived to-day,

But was wayward—or demented,—

Weak, or worse,—who dares to say?

For his thought was streak’d with fancies,

To all simple truth untrue;

Bizarre, as the hues of pansies,—

The dark shades he knew;

And he wander’d from this Aidenn:

Wander’d, and was lost, alas!