Indissolubly thus should soul be knit to soul.

V.

And in the visions of romantic youth,

What years of endless bliss are yet to flow!

But, mortal pleasure, what art thou in truth?

The torrent’s smoothness, ere it dash below!

And must I change my song? and must I show,

Sweet Wyoming! the day when thou wert doomed,

Guiltless, to mourn thy loveliest bowers laid low!

When where of yesterday a garden bloomed,