This is the fourth video in a series of five. They are best viewed in sequence as a playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzVb6yL_jY68kvKQYjfOBXwK3NZyy0pCj). Enjoy, and don't forget to subscribe to the Ano sensei channel for free, open-access, educational videos! ============================================= IV If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable ! if even I were as in my boyhood, and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven, As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed Scarce seemed a vision―I would ne’er have striven As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. O! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee―tameless, and swift, and proud.