To wander far amid the woodland ferns,

Where dewdrops shine along the gossamer thread;

Where its own sunlight on the reddening leaf

Sleeps, when soft mists have swathed the sunless tree,

Or where the innumerous billows merrily dance;

Yet must I busily dissemble grief

Whirl'd in the pitiless round of circumstance,

Rigid with trained respectability.


New Way out of a Wager.