Had usher’d in the last and pitiable hour,
When that dissyllable—that dread “farewell”
Will fall from Arnold like a deathful knell!—
But true t’his promise he will faithful be,
Should Heaven preserve him over land and sea,
For love combined with strict integrity
Will well assist him through those trying years,
And turn to joy Jane’s first momentous tears.
When, as reluctantly he turn’d around,
Great Day[212] portray’d him on the gravell’d ground—