That tears had little pow’r to speak

When trembling, on a sable cheek!

XIV.

With keen reproach, and menace rude,

The Lascar Boy away was sent;

And now again he seem’d subdu’d,

And his soul sicken’d, as he went.

Now, on the river’s bank he stood;

Now, drank the cool refreshing flood;

Again his fainting heart beat high;