Burn, streamed from showery locks she tosses high!—

A stronger swimmer, Death, glares in her wake.—

Cast, love, ah cast thy harp away!

Aweary am I of thy lay—

Kneel down by me and pray.

III.

WHEN love delays, when love delays and Joy

Steals a strange shadow o'er the happy hills,

And Hope smiles from To-morrow, nor fulfills