As a tired wanderer back to home!

Unveiling many a timid guest

And treasured sorrow of her breast,

A buried love—a wasting care—

Oh! did those griefs win peace from prayer?

And did the poet’s fervid soul

To thee lay bare its inmost scroll?

Those thoughts, which pour’d their quenchless fire

And passion o’er th’ Italian lyre,

Did they to still submission die