Concurr’d to keep me from the dying one.

But, in my grief, I was not left alone,

For they were with me who were all to me,

My noble husband, and my darling son!

With them, how could I ever lonely be?

O, to each other we were all in all—we three!

XL.

My parents reach’d at length the distant spot:

Borne to the earth by grief and sad suspense.

O, God! O, God! they found that “HE was not,”