Oh no! ’twas apprehensive thought
For the kind youth,—for Roderick too—
(Let me be just) that friend so true;
In danger both, and in our cause!
Minstrel, the Douglas dare not pause.
Why else that solemn warning given,
‘If not on earth, we meet in heaven?’
Why else, to Cambus-kenneth’s fane,[237]
If eve return him not again,
Am I to hie, and make me known?