O, surely, I should find my heaven here!

But something tells me there is sorrow near;

Some sad foreboding weighs my spirit down;

And, ere I know it, fast th’ unbidden tear

Springs to my eye. Ev’n nature seems to frown;

The moon has hid herself—the chill night breezes moan.

XVII.

O, why does my imagination thus

Run riot in a world of fancied woes?

Why do I brood o’er dangers perilous,