You might have noticed, busily engaged,
Heart, soul, and hands,—in mending the defects
Left in the fabric of a leaky dam
Raised[230] for enabling this penurious stream
To turn a slender mill (that new-made plaything)
For his delight—the happiest he of all!"
"Far happiest," answered the desponding Man,
"If, such as now he is, he might remain!
Ah! what avails imagination high
Or question deep? what profits all that earth,