A tender heart, a loyal mind, 30

Which with temptation I would trust,

Yet never linked with error find,—

One in whose gentle bosom I

Could pour my secret heart of woes,

Like the care-burthened honey-fly 35

That hides his murmurs in the rose,—

My earthly comforter! whose love

So indefeasible might be

That, when my spirit wonned above,