And saw the bosom’s sigh, the standing tear!

She thought profoundly, for I stay’d to look; 90

And first she read, then laid aside her book;

Then on her hand reclined her lovely head,

And seem’d unconscious of the tear she shed.

“‘Art thou so much,’ I said, ‘to grief a prey?’

Till pity pain’d me, and I rode away.

“Tell me, my Brother, is that sorrow dread

For the great change that bears her to the dead?

Has she connexions? does she love?—I feel