 | The Poetical Works of Caroline Bowles Southey |  |
Despairingly I sought the social scene—
Sound—motion—action—interchange of words,
Scarcely of mind—rare privilege!
Sound—motion—action—interchange of words,
Scarcely of mind—rare privilege!
We talked—
Oh! how we talked—discussed and solved all questions—
Religion, morals, manners, politics,
Physics and metaphysics, books and authors,
Fashion and dress, our neighbours and ourselves;
And ever as the senseless changes rang,
And I helped ring them, in my secret soul
Grew weariness, disgust, and self-contempt;
And, more disturbed in spirit, I resumed,
More cynically sad, my homeward way.
Oh! how we talked—discussed and solved all questions—
Religion, morals, manners, politics,
Physics and metaphysics, books and authors,
Fashion and dress, our neighbours and ourselves;
And ever as the senseless changes rang,
And I helped ring them, in my secret soul
Grew weariness, disgust, and self-contempt;
And, more disturbed in spirit, I resumed,
More cynically sad, my homeward way.
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