"'Speak yet again,' he cries, 'is any nigh?'
Again the mournful Echo answers, 'I,'
'Why come not you,' he said, 'appear in view,'
She hastily returns, 'why come not you?'
"'Then let us join,' at last Narcissus said,
'Then let us join,' replied the ravished maid."
In vain had the wondering youth up to this moment looked for the frolic companions, whom he imagined had hid themselves in play. But Echo, charmed with his last exclamation, hastily appeared, and threw herself on the bosom of the astonished youth, who, far from submitting with pleasure to the intrusion,
"With all his strength unlocks her fold,
And breaks unkindly from her feeble hold;
Then proudly cries, 'life shall this breast forsake,