HARRIET. I fear to go-I dare not stay. Look back. I dare not look that way. HENRY. No evil ever shall betide My love, while I am at her fide. Lo! thy protector and thy friend, The arms that fold thee will defend. HARRIET. Still beats my bosom with alarms : Now, Now, without father, mother, friend, O Henry!to thy arms I fall, Alas! what hazards may I run? Shouldst thou forsake me I'm undone. HENRY. My Harriet, diffipate thy fears, And let a husband wipe thy tears ; For ever join'd our fates combine, Altho : Altho' our fathers have been foes, From hatred stronger, love arose; From adverse briars that threatening stood, And threw a horror o'er the wood, Two lovely rofes met on high, Transplanted to a better sky, And, grafted in one stock, they grow, In union spring, in beauty blow. HARRIET. My heart believes my love; but still My boding mind presages ill : For luckless ever was our love, Dark as the sky that hung above. While we embraced, we shook with fears, And with our kisses mingled tears; We met with murmurs and with fighs, And parted still with watery eyes. An An unforeseen and fatal hand Cross'd all the measures Love had plann'd; A demon started in the bower; If, like the past, the future run, And my dark day is but begun, HENRY. O do not wound that gentle breast, Nor fink, with fancied ills oppreft; That bosom ne'er shall heave again But to the poet's tender strain; And never more these eyes o'erflow But for a hapless lover's woe. 1 Long on the ocean tempeft-tost, At last we gain the happy coast; : HARRIET. My father's castle springs to fight; O fcenes I shall behold no more! I take a long, last, lingering view : O father, |