If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief

Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts

Of tender joy wilt thou remember me,

And these my exhortations. Nor, perchance,

If I should be where I no more can hear

Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes those gleams

Of past existence, wilt thou then forget

That on the banks of this delightful stream

We stood together; and that I, so long

A worshiper of nature, hither came,