Up the steep hill did slow ascend;

Now o’er the flow’ry meadows stole,

While pain, and hunger, pinch’d his Soul;

And now his fev’rish lip was dried,

And burning tears his thirst supply’d,

And, ere he saw the Ev’ning close,

Far off, the City dimly rose!

IX.

Again the Summer Sun flam’d high

The plains were golden, far and wide;