He admits that some "bitter notes" have sounded from his harp. But though
his tongue may at times have seemed to speak with contradiction, Hope was
nevertheless still alive to better things.
And if Love "play'd with gracious lies," suggested difficulties, this Love
had only dared to do so
"Because he felt so fixed in truth."
Love sustained him when his song was "full of care;" and Love's signet
marked it whenever it was "sweet and strong;" and he implores Love to
abide with him till he joins his friend "on the mystic deeps," when his
own electric brain no longer "keeps a thousand pulses dancing."