For while I gazed, in transport tossed,

My breath was gone, my voice was lost.

My bosom glow’d the subtle flame

Ran quickly thro’ my vital frame;

O’er my dim eyes a darkness hung,

My ears with hollow murmurs rung.

In dewy damps my limbs were chill’d,

My blood with gentle horrors thrill’d;

My feeble pulse forgot to play,

I fainted, sunk, and died away.