Took a last view, and went to weep apart.

And now his friends went slowly from the place,

Where she stood still, the dashing oar to trace,

Till all were silent! - for the youth she pray’d,

And softly then return’d the weeping maid.

They parted, thus by hope and fortune led,

And Judith’s hours in pensive pleasure fled;

But when return’d the youth? - the youth no more

Return’d exulting to his native shore;

But forty years were past, and then there came