I thought he might obtain from thee a look,

As Dian's self will smile upon a brook,

And make it glad, though deaf to its desire,

And tinge its ripples with a tender fire,

And make it thankful in its lonely nook.

X.

I thought to win thee ere the waning days

Had caught the snow, ere yet a word of mine

Had pall'd upon thee in the summer shine;

And I was fain to meet thee in the ways