“No tint, as in the face:

“He bade my Reason, blossom like the tree—

“But fond affection gave, the ripen’d fruits to thee.

XIV.

“With jealous rage he mark’d my love;

“He sent thee far away;—

“And prison’d in the plantain grove—

“Poor Zelma pass’d the day—

“But ere the moon rose high above the main,

“Zelma, and Love contriv’d, to break the Tyrant’s chain.