Had done me kindness, plucked me back again.

They said my reason wandered, and had found

A peaceful nook remote from sight or sound

Of busy men; there by the moonlit sea

On a soft couch I lay, where over me

Through the low lattice the sea odors crept,

And from the landward side about me swept

Soft languid waves of amorous perfume,

Of pollen-dust, of bursting bud and bloom.

Wrecked by the storm of life, and cast aside