For Nereus ne’er surveyed a daughter fair as this!

XXXVI.

Mourn, San Sebastian, for the beauty blighted

Of her your angel-child in by-gone years.

Your eyes no more shall by her charms delighted

Recal celestial dreams to chase your fears.

And, Isidora too, be shed thy tears,

Or hoarded for thyself whom danger girds.

Thy foster-sister memory now endears

Alone, with thought of gentle deeds and words.