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AT last I put off love, / For twice ten years / The daysman of my thought, / And hope, and doing; / Being ashamed thereof, / And faint of fears / And desolations, wrought / In his pursuing,
Since first in youthtime those / Disquietings / That heart-enslavement brings / To hale and hoary, / Became my housefellows, / And, fool and blind, / I turned from kith and kind / To give him glory.