Her Views are pleasant and her prospect bright;

And then again the warning Spirit spake:

“Grief follow Joy, succeeds to Woe Delight—

Both thine; which first, fair Dreamer, wilt thou take? 360

Choose either, but take both! now, Emely awake!”


“So ends the Vision and the Sens[e]!” she cry’d.

The Matron smil’d, was thoughtful, and reply’d:

“Thy previous fears to these suggestions led;

Ah, tell me all that Emely can dread!