From this return, with recent treasures stor’d;
Me, with affairs of commerce charg’d, he sent }
To Albert’s humble mansion—soon I went! }
Too soon, alas! unconscious of th’ event. }
There, struck with sweet surprise and silent awe,
The gentle mistress of my hopes I saw;
There, wounded first by Love’s resistless arms,
My glowing bosom throbbed with strange alarms;
My ever charming Anna! who alone
Can all the frowns of cruel fate atone;