Their flowers seem to languish, their beauty to cease,

For a stranger inhabits the mansion of peace.

But hushed be the sigh that untimely complains,

While Friendship and all its enchantment remains,

While it blooms like the flower of a winterless clime,

Untainted by chance, unabated by time.


THE “NAME UNKNOWN;”
IN IMITATION OF KLOPSTOCK.

Prophetic pencil! wilt thou trace