XXI + 

He quits the fashionable throng + 

And meditative homeward goes, + 

Visions, now sad, now grateful, long + 

Do agitate his late repose. + 

He wakes⁠—they with a letter come⁠— + 

The Princess N. will be at home + 

On such a day. O Heavens, ’tis she! + 

Oh! I accept. And instantly + 

He a polite reply doth scrawl. + 

What hath he dreamed? What hath occurred? + 

In the recesses what hath stirred + 

Of a heart cold and cynical? + 

Vexation? Vanity? or strove + 

Again the plague of boyhood⁠—love? + 