Moves o’er the woof her crayon slow.

Here, cold, bewilder’d, tir’d, forlorn,

The Traveller sighs in vain for morn;

Stretch’d on the imprinted snow he lies,

And bends on heaven his stiffening eyes.

There Friendship sits the shade beneath,

And twines for Clarke a fadeless wreath;

Fresh cypress with the flowers she weaves,

And many a tear-drop gems the leaves.

Next o’er the lawn a virgin throng