While on high God’s sun was bright?—

(For after day must come the night).—

Ay! canst thou answer my request,

And give my longing temples rest? * * *

Alas! I fear, O Destiny,

The all unknown futurity

Never will again impart,

By that beauteous river Dart,

Or there upon those mossy rocks,

Where, where the cawing raven flocks,