The lorn Boy hasten’d; there the rushy couch,

The pillow still indented, met his gaze

And fix’d his eve in madness.—From that hour

A maniac wild, the Alien Boy has been;

His garb with sea-weeds fring’d, and his wan cheek

The tablet of his mind, disorder’d, chang’d,

Fading, and worn with care. And if, by chance,

A Sea-beat wand’rer from the outstretch’d main

Views the lone Exile, and with gen’rous zeal

Hastes to the sandy beach, he suddenly