XVI.
             
        What words are these have fall’n from me?
            Can calm despair and wild unrest
            Be tenants of a single breast,
        Or sorrow such a changeling be?

        Or doth she only seem to take
            The touch of change in calm or storm;
            But knows no more of transient form
        In her deep self, than some dead lake

        That holds the shadow of a lark
            Hung in the shadow of a heaven?
            Or has the shock, so harshly given,
        Confused me like the unhappy bark

        That strikes by night a craggy shelf,
            And staggers blindly ere she sink?
            And stunn’d me from my power to think
        And all my knowledge of myself;

        And made me that delirious man
            Whose fancy fuses old and new,
            And flashes into false and true,
        And mingles all without a plan?