God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone; From all that makes a wise old man That can be praised of all; O what am I that I should not seem For the song's sake a fool?
I pray -- for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again -- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
In the second stanza the poet thinks of:
AWhat all earns all others' praise.
BWhat all makes a wise old man.
CWhat he does not want to appear.
DWhat he thinks he is, a fool.
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