VIII + 

What can I give thee back, O liberal + 

And princely giver⁠—who hast brought the gold + 

And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold, + 

And laid them on the outside of the wall + 

For such as I to take or leave withal, + 

In unexpected largesse? Am I cold, + 

Ungrateful, that for these most manifold + 

High gifts, I render nothing back at all? + 

Not so; not cold⁠—but very poor instead! + 

Ask God who knows! For frequent tears have run + 

The colours from my life, and left so dead + 

And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done + 

To give the same as pillow to thy head. + 

Go farther! let it serve to trample on. + 