If, on the last, or any day before,

Of my brief course on earth, I did amiss,

Say it at once, and let me be unblest;

But, O my faultless father! why should you?

And shun so my embraces?

Am I wild

And wandering in my fondness?

We are shades!!

Groan not thus deeply; blight not thus the season

Of full orbed gladness! Shades we are indeed,