Their sin to earth,—and with low drooping head

Receive the solemn blessing, and implore

Its grace—then soberly with chasten'd tread,

They meekly press towards the gusty door

With humbled eyes that go to graze upon

The lowly grass—like him of Babylon.

And she, the lonely widow,

XXII.

And she, the lonely widow,

The lowly grass!—O water-constant mind!