They pass for persons happy and at rest; }
Their love by Hymen crown’d, and all their prospects bless’d. }
“Love has slow death and sudden: wretches prove
That fate severe—the sudden death of love; 90
It is as if, on day serenely bright,
Came with its horrors instantaneous night;
Others there are with whom love dies away
In gradual waste and unperceived decay.
Such is that death of love that nature finds