XL.

Salustian quick regained his wonted strength, Such strength as leaves the feebler tide of life, And near Ernani--moved of moderate length The journey--to a house with comforts rife, His patrimony fair, where sound of strife There comes not. Grassy slopes and orchards gay, And sweetest daughter to replace a wife Embalmed in deathless memory, fill the day With gentlest exercise, and health resumes its sway.