Awake, bemused you yawn and snore, a prey

To sick nightmares although it is broad day,

Chief of your evils being that you fail

To extort from them what it is you ail.

Cruel the weight, you cry, upon your breast;

It wears you out, and robs you of your rest.

Seek whence it came, and by what right it took

You for pack-horse, and why it is you brook

The burden; put it, put your brain and heart

To the question. When you and Reason part,