IV.

With those fair orbs which lit her common air } That which should be her guardian planet there } Now cold if radiant did the wife compare? } If so, alas we lose the Chaldee's power To shape the life if we neglect the hour. And in the crowd was now their only meeting-- They who from crowds should so have hail'd retreating. But in the crowd if eye encounter'd eye, Whence came her blush, or wherefore heaved his sigh? Ah! woe when lost the Heavenly confidence, Man's gentle right, and woman's strong defence!-- Like the frank sunflower, Household Love to-day Must ope its leaves;--what shades it, brings decay.