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334 SONNRTSo XL, DESPONDENCY. MOMENTS of utter gloom, more frequent now Ye cloud a heart, that knew you from it's birth; Of? has your darimebs quench'd ?e blaze of mii?, 'And ev'n o'er most auspicious hours would t!?ow It's maude of unutterable woe, While my heart pined in wild mysterious dearth Of all, that is cail'd happiness on earth; With nought to hope, and none to love, below. Oh, was it not the dim, prelusive shade, Which, ere it's full eclipse, Hope's planet loMw; Misfortune's giant shadow, far display'd, Ere the.gaunt speCtre Stole, himself, to view ? The coming stornr's prophetic lurid hue, Ere lightning blasted all the destined glade ?
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