My guilty heart is quaking!
Oh that I might retract
The step that I am taking.
Its folly it were easy to be showing,
What I am giving up and whither going.
On the one hand, papa’s luxurious home,
Hung with ancestral armour and old brasses,
Carved oak and tapestry from distant Rome,
Rare “blue and white” Venetian finger-glasses,
Rich Oriental rugs, luxurious sofa pillows,