The cuckow her ballad renew’d,

And mix’d with the music her sound—

Forgive me ye pow’rs! if I bow’d

To worship a form so divine,

A mortal might sure be allow’d

To bend at a goddess’s shrine.

I gaz’d as each look were my last;

With rapture I think on her now—

And said as she carelessly pass’d,

‘Thy name to thy vot’ry avow—