Most grateful, if in such wise to enjoy

Be proof of gratitude for what we have;

Else, I allow, most thankless.—But, at once,

From some dark seat of fatal power was urged

A claim that shattered all.—Our blooming girl,

Caught in the gripe of death, with such brief time

To struggle in as scarcely would allow

Her cheek to change its colour, was conveyed

From us to inaccessible worlds, to regions[263]

Where height, or depth, admits not the approach