Forever! ’t is a single word!
  Our rude forefathers deemed it two;
Can you imagine so absurd
          A view?

Forever! What abysms of woe
  The word reveals, what frenzy, what
Despair! For ever (printed so)
          Did not.

It looks, ah me! how trite and tame;
  It fails to sadden or appall
Or solace—it is...