And she beside her with attention spread

The decorations of the maiden dead.

While quickly thus the mortal part declin’d,

The happiest visions fill’d the active mind;

A soft, religious melancholy gain’d

Entire possession, and for ever reign’d:

On Holy Writ her mind reposing dwelt,

She saw the wonders, she the mercies felt;

Till, in a bless’d and glorious reverie,

She seem’d the Saviour as on earth to see,