WITH many a thousand kiss not yet content,At length with One kiss I was forced to go;After that bitter parting's depth of woe, I deem'd the shore from which my steps I bent,Its hills, streams, dwellings, mountains, as I went,A pledge of joy, till daylight ceased to glow;Then on my sight did blissful visions grow In the dim-lighted, distant firmament,And when at length the sea confined my gaze,My ardent longing fill'd my heart once more;What I had lost, unwillingly I sought.
Then Heaven appear'd to shed its kindly rays:
Methought that all I had possess'd of yoreRemain'd still mine--that I was reft of nought.
1807?.
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