To calm its poignant grief, and cease to mourn.)
"I struggled hard but long could not sustain,
For cold and fever seized my care-worn brain;
My health, by over-study much impaired,
For this encounter was but ill prepared.
For weeks unconscious in this state I lay,
My life, despaired of, nearly sank away;
Until sweet Hope appeared with healing beam,
And I awoke as from a pleasant dream.
I dreamt my love had watched my bed beside,