X.

Secure in guarded coldness, he had mixed[gp] Again in fancied safety with his kind, And deemed his spirit now so firmly fixed And sheathed with an invulnerable mind, That, if no joy, no sorrow lurked behind; And he, as one, might 'midst the many stand Unheeded, searching through the crowd to find Fit speculation--such as in strange land He found in wonder-works of God and Nature's hand.[gq]