LX.

He woo’d her back to life. “Sweet Inez, live!

My blessed Inez!—visions have beguiled

Thy heart; abjure them! thou wert form’d to give

And to find joy; and hath not sunshine smiled

Around thee ever? Leave me not, mine own!

Or earth will grow too dark!—for thee alone,

Thee have I loved, thou gentlest! from a child,

And borne thine image with me o’er the sea,

Thy soft voice in my soul. Speak! Oh! yet live for me!”