lay] song MSS. W., B.
[61] foll.
Dear shall it be to every human heart,
To me how more than dearest! me, on whom
Comfort from thee, and utterance of thy love,
Came with such heights and depths of harmony,
Such sense of wings uplifting, that the storm 5
Scatter'd and whirl'd me, till my thoughts became
A bodily tumult; and thy faithful hopes,
Thy hopes of me, dear Friend! by me unfelt!
Were troublous to me, almost as a voice,
Familiar once, and more than musical; 10
To one cast forth, whose hope had seem'd to die
A wanderer with a worn-out heart
Mid strangers pining with untended wounds.
O Friend, too well thou know'st, of what sad years
The long suppression had benumb'd my soul, 15
That even as life returns upon the drown'd,
The unusual joy awoke a throng of pains—
Keen pangs, &c.
MSS. B, W with the following variants:—
ll. 5-6
Such sense of wings uplifting, that its might
Scatter'd and quell'd me—
MS. B.
ll. 11, 12
As a dear woman's voice to one cast forth
A wanderer with a worn-out heart forlorn.
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