Hope was awaken’d, as for home he sail’d,

But quickly sank, and never more prevail’d.

He call’d his friend, and prefaced with a sigh

A lover’s message - “Thomas, I must die:

Would I could see my Sally, and could rest

My throbbing temples on her faithful breast,

And gazing go! - if not, this trifle take,

And say, till death I wore it for her sake:

Yes! I must die - blow on, sweet breeze, blow on!

Give me one look before my life be gone,