The Assignation

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​⁠Stay for me there! I will not fail. To meet thee in that hollow vale.

(Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester.)

Ill-fated and mysterious man!—bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth! Again in fancy I behold thee! Once more thy form hath risen before me!—not—oh! not as thou art—in the cold valley and shadow—but a