Content, and calm serenity of mind,

Shall pave my paths along the rugged vale;

And when the vain delusive vision’s past,

Then happiness, in all its vast extent

Unmeasurable, ignorant of bounds,

Shall through eternal ages be my lot;

The lot of all whose hope is fix’d on thee.

UPON A
YOUNG LADY’S
LEAVING
LOUDOUN CASTLE.

WHAT means this silent, solitary gloom?