Till it arrives, he’ll never go away.”
So spake the Seamen; when, approaching nigh,
Matilda stopt and, with an heavy sigh,
Dropt on the Shore. Her Brother, frightened, flew
To give her Aid—she breathed, and, “Is it true?”
She said; “I saw him—I my Frederick see;
Brother, forgive! he comes to die with me.
What Heaven decrees is done.”—And now began
The same strong feeling in the fainting Man.
What past so near him his Attention drew; 460