V.
Thus once was I, with heavy grief opprest,
The morn no pleasure gave, the night no rest;
Till cheering Friendship lent her beaming ray,
And all was pleasure with the opening day.
CLARA.
New-York, Oct. 12, 1796.
The quoted line “And sigh in shades, and sicken at the sun” is from Shenstone, Elegy 26 (“I sigh in...”).