And brav'd the demon with victorious strife,

And sacredly maintained the whiteness of her life.

But they were ruin'd, this sequester'd pair,

Who shunn'd the world's alluring charms to crime,

Soon they were driven forth in dark despair,

Like the sad consorts of that earlier time.

A grief fell on that island's blooming prime.

They pass'd away, and never saw again,

Their island home amid that pleasant clime.

Awhile they roamed o'er earth's most desolate plain,