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Such Forms as from their covert peepWhen earthly cares are laid asleep!Yet, dream and vision as thou art,I bless thee with a human heart:God shield thee to thy latest years!I neither know thee nor thy peers;And yet my eyes are fill'd with tears.
With earnest feeling I shall prayFor thee when I am far away:For never saw I mien, or face,In which more plainly I could traceBenignity and home-bred senseRipening in perfect innocence.Here, scatter'd like a random seed,Remote from men, Thou dost not needThe embarrass'd look of shy distress,And maidenly shamefacedness:
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