To feel for those among our fellow-men,

Who, offering no obeisance to the world,

Are yet made desperate by 'too quick a sense

Of constant infelicity,'[HP] cut off

From peace like exiles on some barren rock,

Their life's appointed prison; not more free

Than sentinels, between two armies, set,

With nothing better, in the chill night air,

Than their own thoughts to comfort them. Say why

That ancient story of Prometheus[HQ] chained