By poets skilled in nature's secret ways

That Love will not submit to be controlled

By mastery:—and the good Man lacked not friends

Who strove to instil this truth into his mind,

A mind in all heart-mysteries unversed.

'Go to the hills,' said one, 'remit a while

'This baneful diligence:—at early morn

'Court the fresh air, explore the heaths and woods;

'And, leaving it to others to foretell,

'By calculations sage, the ebb and flow