Was ever whisp’ring in her anxious ear,

That death might come again. He had come near,

And stricken from her arms so oft before

Her dearest treasures, that his lifted spear

Afar off gleaming, would alarm her more

Than hosts of other foes, with all their threaten’d power.

XXXV.

My brother never saw his love again.

He journey’d to a distant land—to die!

I must not speak of this—the throbbing pain