V + 

What youthful mother, a shape upon her lap + 

Honey of generation had betrayed, + 

And that must sleep, shriek, struggle to escape + 

As recollection or the drug decide, + 

Would think her son, did she but see that shape + 

With sixty or more winters on its head, + 

A compensation for the pang of his birth, + 

Or the uncertainty of his setting forth? + 