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.