I gaz'd—and sigh'd, and sigh'd!—for, ah! how soon

Eve darkens into night. Mine eye perus'd

With tearful vacancy the dampy grass

Which wept and glitter'd in the paly ray;

And I did pause me on my lonely way,

And mused me on those wretched ones who pass

O'er the black heath of Sorrow. But, alas!

Most of Myself I thought: when it befell

That the sooth Spirit of the breezy wood

Breath'd in mine ear—'All this is very well;