XLVIII: Look not!
So clear and clearer dawned upon my mind
some years ago when I was much more bold,
that no-one likely would be keen to find
the kinds of loves and truths to which I hold.
But still I thence pretended it could be,
some secret soul might want to read my book.
But years come on, and eyes tell what they see:
no soul had yet to take a ling’ring look.
It should have …
