To hear the sweetly mournful lute complain,

And melt the heart with ecstasy of pain,

Or listen to the enchanting voice of love,

While all Elysium warbled through the grove;

Oh! by the hollow blast that moans around,

That sweeps the wild harp with a plaintive sound;

By the long surge that foams through yonder cave,

Whose vaults remurmur to the roaring wave;

With living colours give my verse to glow,

The sad memorial of a Tale of Woe!