wring

And bite back the cry of their pain in self-scorn ;

But the birth-pangs of nations will wring us at length

Into wail such as this -- and we sit on forlorn

The tears of a man full grown,

With a power to wring our own,

In the eyes all undefiled

Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush

Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring

The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;

Yet both droop deadly sometimes in their cells

Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.

Calm is the sea, the waves work less and less.

So am not I, whom love, alas, doth wring,

Bringing before my face the great increase

of Abydos_ while the poem was still in the press. It was written, he

says, to divert his mind, "to wring his thoughts from reality to

imagination--from selfish regrets to vivid recollections" (_Diary_,

To give repentance to her lover,

And wring his bosom--is, to die.

To give repentance to her lover,

And wring his bosom, is—to die.