A wish defin’d she saw, and knelt;
Beside her soon his form she felt:
Then, with join’d hands uplift in air,
Burst from their lips the ardent prayer.
With brighter hopes from earth they rose,
Nor long (—for so the story goes)
In idle wailings spent the day:
Just then a neighbour pass’d that way.—
Whang turn’d his head; a crimson streak
Rush’d hastily across his cheek,