Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,

Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!

Quenched youth, and is that thy purse?

Even such limp slough as the snake has left

Slack to the gale upon spikes of whin,

For cast-off coat of a life gone blank,

In its frame of a grin at the seeker, is thine;

And thine to crave and to curse