Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life

by Eliza Paul Gurney

But I trust thou wilt forgive me,

For the love I bear to thee.

1811. E. P. K.

WRITTEN AT THE DELAWARE WATER GAP.

Great and omnipotent that Power must be,

That wings the whirlwind and directs the storm,

That, by a strong convulsion, severed thee,

And wrought this wondrous chasm in thy form.

Man is a dweller, where, in some past day,