He next compares himself to the disappointed lover who "alights" from his
horse, calls at the home of his mistress,
"And learns her gone and far from home."
So, as the disappointed lover, to whom the whole place has at once become
a desert, wanders into the garden, and culls a rain-beaten flower, which
she had fostered; even thus will he cherish and plant "this poor flower of
poesy" on Hallam's tomb,[9] because his friend when alive had been pleased
with his poetic power.