XII.

I can reduce all feelings but this one; And that I would not;--for at length I see Such scenes as those wherein my life begun--[89] The earliest--even the only paths for me--[ai] Had I but sooner learnt the crowd to shun, I had been better than I now can be; The Passions which have torn me would have slept; _I_ had not suffered, and _thou_ hadst not wept.