With none to share its company⁠—

Unloved while living, and when dead,

With none a heart-wrung tear to shed!

Alas! how cold and desolate

The path of such a one must be,

How dim his hopes—how sad his fate,

How cheerless his lone destiny!

No eye to mark each changing look,

No lip his fever’d brain to press;

No gentle one in whisper low,