Doubting himself, he sought in absence aid, }
And had resolved on flight, but still the act delay’d; }
At last so high his apprehension rose, 160
That he would both his love and labour close.
“While undisclosed my fear each instant grows,
And I lament the guilt that no one knows:
Success undoes me, and the view, that cheers
All other men, all dark to me appears!”
Thus as he thought, his Ellen at his side
Her soothing softness to his grief applied;