Before whose vivid intellectual ray
Distress recedes, and danger melts away:
Already British coasts appear to rise,
The chalky cliffs salute their longing eyes;
Each to his breast, where floods of rapture roll,
Embracing strains the mistress of his soul;
Nor less o’erjoyed, with sympathetic truth,
Each faithful maid expects th’ approaching youth:
In distant souls congenial passions glow,
And mutual feelings mutual bliss bestow—