It was not envy—Adeline had none;

Her place was far beyond it, and her mind:

It was not scorn—which could not light on one

Whose greatest fault was leaving few to find:

It was not jealousy, I think—but shun

Following the ignes fatui of Mankind:

It was not——but 't is easier far, alas!

To say what it was not than what it was.