Shall hail Palemon to his native shore, }

Where never interest shall divide us more.— }

“Her struggling soul, o’erwhelmed with tender grief,

Now found an interval of short relief:

So melts the surface of the frozen stream

Beneath the wintry sun’s departing beam.

With cruel haste the shades of night withdrew,

And gave the signal of a sad adieu:

As on my neck th’ afflicted maiden hung,

A thousand racking doubts her spirit wrung;