And youth, when it aspires to find
Gladness in beauty, wanting mind,
Like guileless child, is ever dreaming
Of joy and brightness only seeming;
And knows not, till the dream is past,
What spells around the heart are cast.
And manhood dreams,—when o'er the soul
Ambition has secured control,—
Of power, and wealth, and worldly state,
And all the splendours of the great: