For he had listened to love's tones, until
His ear and lip, though not his heart, had grown
Familiar with their melody. Nay, more,—
They said his very boyhood had been marked
By worse than a boy's follies; that in youth,
The season of high hopes, when lesser men
Put on their manhood, as a monarch's heir
Rich robes and royalty, his poor ambition
Asked but new charms and pleasures; newer loves;
New lips to smile until their sweetness palled,