Than all the joys, wealth, fame, and friends could prove.

For thee alone I liv'd, or wish'd to live,

(Oh God! if impious, this rash word forgive)

Heart broken now, I wait an equal doom,

Content to join thee in thy turf-clad tomb;

Where this frail form compos'd in endless rest,

I'll make my last, cold, pillow on thy breast;

That breast where oft in life, I've laid my head,

Will yet receive me mouldering with the dead;

This life resign'd without one parting sigh,