No ready grooms my call await;

Leaps on its hinge no friendly gate;

Not for my meal that kitchen’s blaze;

Thy people on a stranger gaze;

And, for the fox-hound cow’ring bland,

Bays the fierce house-dog at his stand.

Yet, as my doubtful step withdraws,

Fresh memories plead for longer pause;

While mixes with each faint farewell

What only struggling sighs can tell.