Twilight Life

I live a twilight life—not dark, but yetEnjoying but a dim uncertain light;Not glad nor sad, no victim of regret,But ever not so near to day as night:Pleasure's intoxication now no moreCan fill me with its rapture—for I knowEarthward we fall at last though high we soar,And time shall soon all gladness overthrow:Yet now I feel not sorrow's bitternessCrashing me down as once with leaden weight,For that same fate that makes our pleasures less,The pressure too of misery doth abate:So now I rest content, whate'er befall,To live or die—"the readiness is all."