• Farewell to such a world! Too long I press
      The crowded pavement with unwilling feet.
    Pity makes pride, and hate breeds hatefulness,
      And both are poisons. In the forest sweet
    The shade, the peace! Immensity, that seems
    To drown the human life of doubts and dreams.

    Far off the massive portals of the wood,
      Buttressed with shadow,...