And she went forth to seek him—she pass’d alone.
We hear not her voice when the woods are still,
From the bower where it sang, like a silvery rill.
The joy of her sire with her smile is fled,
The winter is white on his lonely head:
He hath none by his side when the wilds we track,
He hath none when we rest—yet she comes not back!
We look’d for her eye on the feast to shine,
For her breezy step—but the step was thine!
We saw thee, O stranger! and wept.