My pen would fain linger over the portrait of this sainted man, which is the fairest and most benign in the whole gallery of my youth, but I must turn to another subject,to the cloud which began to shadow my life at my tenth year, and which still shadows it to-day.

But, as my features were intact, and my facial expression as benign as usual next morning, I inferred that their gambols had been most innocently and decorously conducted.

From fairy gardens, known to none, She brought mysterious fruits and flowers The things of some serener sun Some Nature more benign than ours.