[00:01.356]A Pause of Thought
[00:03.571]
[00:05.434]I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
[00:08.818]And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth
[00:12.602]But years must pass before a hope of youth
[00:15.106]Is resigned utterly.
[00:16.383]
[00:17.578]I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
[00:20.774]And though the object seemed to flee away
[00:23.086]That I so longed for, ever day by day
[00:26.515]I watched and waited still.
[00:28.313]
[00:29.176]Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;
[00:32.833]My expectation wearies and shall cease;
[00:35.683]I will resign it now and be at peace:
[00:38.356]Yet never gave it o'er.
[00:40.195]
[00:40.849]Sometimes I said: It is an empty name
[00:43.504]I long for; to a name why should I give
[00:46.120]The peace of all the days I have to live?
[00:48.922]Yet gave it all the same.
[00:50.505]
[00:51.531]Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit
[00:54.545]For healthy joy and salutary pain:
[00:57.451]Thou knowest the chase useless, and again
[01:00.520]Turnest to follow it.

A Pause of Thought
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is resigned utterly.
I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still.
Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;
My expectation wearies and shall cease;
I will resign it now and be at peace:
Yet never gave it o'er.
Sometimes I said: It is an empty name
I long for; to a name why should I give
The peace of all the days I have to live?
Yet gave it all the same.
Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit
For healthy joy and salutary pain:
Thou knowest the chase useless, and again
Turnest to follow it.