And sad was each heart, save the only one
By which they were fondest cherish’d.”
—“The Contrast,” written under Windsor Terrace, 17th Feb. 1820, by Horace Smith, Esq.
“The bright day is done,
And we are for the dark.”—Shakspeare.
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Shakspeare.
[63] These stanzas were dated, Brownwhylfa, 23d Dec. 1817, and first appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. iii. April 1818.