Behold her shape, inexorable, vast—

Blind arbitress o’er changeling wrong and right:

CVII

Who pain, and bliss, and passion, hope, despair,

Casts in life’s cup, she, cunning, mixes fair,

And gives, as to a babe, man’s helpless lips,

Drawing delicious poison unaware.

CVIII

Then what is life? Well might we ask again—