If I might gain thy thresholds by much thought,

Cast down from thy last steps after so long,

But one amid the countless, hopeless throng!

Lament X

My dear delight, my Ursula, and where

Art thou departed, to what land, what sphere?

High o’er the heavens wert thou borne, to stand

One little cherub midst the cherub band?

Or dost thou laugh in Paradise, or now

Upon the Islands of the Blest art thou?