I-XVII
You cant learn
aught sans'1 a conscious soul,
The hearts get a life from breath of man's dole2.
Who guards his ego by wails and sighs,
And keeps self's honour by ruthful eyes.
1. Sans, (Sanz) Fr without.
a conscious soul; viz, a guide.
2. Dole, n., pain, grief. (arch and in poetry),
heaviness of heart. Hence doleful., adj.