Age?—a drooping, tottering willow
On a flat and lazy shore.[322]
What is peace?—when pain is over,
And love ceases to rebel,
Let the last faint sigh discover
That precedes the passing knell!
Compare Carlyle's Cui Bono—
What is Hope? A smiling rainbow
Children follow through the wet;
'Tis not here, still yonder, yonder: