And now resolved he should with justice meet;—
“Soon as she saw him on her hook secure,
He should the pangs of perjured man endure.”
These her first thoughts—but as, from time to time,
The Lover came, she dwelt not on his crime—
“Crime could she call it? prudes, indeed, condemn
These slips of youth—but she was not of them.”
So gentler thoughts arose as, day by day,
The Captain came his passion to display. 120
When he display’d his passion, and she felt,