This was—I know not where—there's a great hill

Close over, and the stream has lost its bridge,

One fords it. She began—"I have heard say

Of some sick body that my mother knew,

'T was no good sign when in a limb diseased

All the pain suddenly departs,—as if

The guardian angel discontinued pain

Because the hope of cure was gone at last:

The limb will not again exert itself,

It needs be pained no longer: so with me,