More imminent. Not unseen do they approach;

And rapture, with varieties of fear

Incessantly conflicting, thrills the frames 65

Of those who, in that dauntless energy,

Foretaste deliverance; but the least perturbed

Can scarcely trust his eyes, when he perceives

That of the pair—tossed on the waves to bring

Hope to the hopeless, to the dying, life— 70

One is a Woman, a poor earthly sister,

Or, be the Visitant other than she seems,