Not even if with a wizard force I might br Have summoned whomsoever I would name, br Should anyone else have come than he who came, br Uncalled, to share with me my fire that night; br For though I should have said that all was right, br Or right enough, nothing had been the same br As when I found him there before the flame, br Always a welcome and a useful sight. br br Unfailing and exuberant all the time, br Having no gold he paid with golden rhyme, br Of older coinage than his old defeat, br A debt that like himself was obsolete br In Art’s long hazard, where no man may choose br Whether he play to win or toil to lose.