Whose daring tints, with Shakspeare's happiest grace,

Gave to the airy phantom form and place—

Back o'er her pillow sinks her blushing head,

Her snow-white limbs hang helpless from the bed;

While with quick sighs, and suffocative breath,

Her interrupted heart-pulse swims in death.

—— Then shrieks of captur'd towns, and widow's tears,

Pale lovers stretch'd upon their blood-stain'd biers,

The headlong precipice that thwarts her flight,

The trackless desert, the cold starless night,