Farewell, too little and too lately known, / Whom I began to think and call my own.

By education most have been misled; so they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man.

There's been too many of these lately.

To live at ease, and not be bound to think.

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

He's pitched so good lately and he hasn't had much to show for it.