For thee a brother’s heart must languish.

“That eye of brightness glows no more,

That beaming glance in night is clouded;”

On Maracaibo’s distant shore,

“In death’s dark cell untimely shrouded.”

Alas! for him no kindred near

In hopes to minister relief;

He sees no tear of pity shed,

He sees no parents’ anxious grief.

And as still evening came on,