I must from thee away; There are laws which e'en spirits are bound to obey!

I do not intend ever to have him; but if the poor creature is resolved to sigh at my feet, I must e'en let him.

And e'en the merry mavis Will rank as rara avis— The sparrow, sole of all that sailed with Noah, Will learn the casual pot-shot to withstand!

"But I would love to go to sea, and become famous like Admiral Blake, e'en though he were a Roundhead!"

Ah, no! e'en in dying he would not deceive; And he promised, if spirit such power could receive, And he fell in his holy chivalry.