V.

I saw the depths of her spirit wrung,

The music fled, and the harp unstrung;

The love intense she had treasured there,

Like fragrance shed on the desert air:

I bore her to deathless love away;

Oh! why do ye mourn for the young to-day?

VI.

I paused by the couch where the poet lay,

Mid fancies bright on their sparing way;