Though heretofore I have but set my voice

To some long sighs, grief-harmonized, to tell

How desolate I fared;—but this sweet change

Will add new notes of gladness to my range!"

LXX.

"Or bid me speak, and I will tell thee tales,

Which I have framed out of the noise of waves;

Ere now I have communed with senseless gales,

And held vain colloquies with barren caves;

But I could talk to thee whole days and days,