Lo, Elbert enter’d and encounter’d us.
At first scarce friendly, after divers tests,
And in the new light of my life with her,
His older love return’d with oldest warmth:
“To think so thin a fancy,” he exclaim’d,
“As last I found you folded in, should screen
Our genuine hearts, a moment, each from each!”
LII.
The fancy thin!—I let him keep his word;
I would not argue.—Still, with care not loath