[p31] Thus, gently reviving, Hope sooth’d them again,

And they shortly forgot both their sorrow and pain.

A path strew’d with flowers, they gaily pursued,

And, in fancy, their long-sought Incognita view’d;

Till, all their cares over, in Dorset[5] they found her

And, plucking a wreath of green Bay-leaves, they crown’d her.

Now, what more remains of our Peacock to say,

But that, homeward, triumphant, he wing’d back his way,