Brightly victorious o’er the hours of care!

I have not watch’d in vain, serenely scorning

The wild and busy whispers of despair!

Thou hast sent tidings, as of heaven—I wait

The hour, the sign, for blessed flight to thee.

Oh! for the skylark’s wing that seeks its mate

As a star shoots!—but on the breezy sea

We shall meet soon. To think of such an hour!

Will not my heart, o’erburden’d by its bliss,

Faint and give way within me, as a flower