Showed where that streamlet flowed, for ever mixed with Ocean.

XVIII.

Morton the youth was named—majestic tall,

For strength and symmetry his shape combined;

Gentle as valiant, generous, loved by all;

A soldier frank, pellucid was his mind,

His judgment sound, his bearing ever kind;

To her ’twas tenderest love that hourly grew.

The pride that scorns unequal lots to bind