We started as if for an airing gay,

No coachman or footman, not even Jane;

The husband drove us the whole of the way,

And saw me safe in the Liverpool train.

The tears of my friend lie wet on my cheek,

I pointed onward, and wistfully smil'd;

Her husband smil'd too, though he did not speak

And kiss'd me as if I had been his child.

Never a slumber the whole of the night,

Never a slumber with day in the skies;