第5章

ROUGE GAGNE.

'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!

If I should fail, what poverty!

And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw;

Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so This side the victory!

Life is but life, and death but death!

Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!

And if, indeed, I fail, At least to know the worst is sweet.

Defeat means nothing but defeat, No drearier can prevail!

And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea, Oh, bells that in the steeples be, At first repeat it slow!

For heaven is a different thing Conjectured, and waked sudden in, And might o'erwhelm me so!