He knows the "lesser grief" that can be told, also the "deeper anguish
which cannot be spoken:" his spirits are thus variably affected.
In his lighter mood, he laments as servants mourn for a good master who
has died:
"It will be hard, they say, to find
Another service such as this."
But he is also visited by a sense of deeper deprivation, such as children
feel when they lose a father, and
"see the vacant chair, and think,
How good! how kind! and he is gone."