But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may.

"Through no disturbance of my soul,

Or strong compunction in me wrought,

I supplicate for thy controul;

But in the quietness of thought:

Me this uncharter'd freedom tires;

I feel the weight of chance desires:

My hopes no more must change their name,

I long for a repose which ever is the same.

"Yet not the less would I throughout