It was not envy—Adeline had none;
Her place was far beyond it, and her mind:
It was not scorn—which could not light on one
Whose greatest fault was leaving few to find:
It was not jealousy, I think—but shun
Following the ignes fatui of Mankind:
It was not—but ’tis easier far, alas!
To say what it was not than what it was.