When rises first the beamy sun, When sets his beauteous ray, When moon and stars their courses run, On thee my thoughts will stay. From that enchanting form my heart No moment will be free; And traitress thou, when I depart Wilt ne’er ev’n think of me! At lonely hours across my thought Gulf’d in the ocean vast, The scenes to memory will be brought With thee I saw and pass’d. Then will my sorrows make me feel My lot more dark to be, And thou more cruel than the steel Wilt ne’er ev’n think of me! “There first her matchless form I saw; There first my faith I swore; And from her flattering lips could draw The happy ‘Yes’ they wore!” As these reflections by me file, Rise griefs in like degree; And thou, who knows, if thou the while Wilt e’er ev’n think of me? Then as I hours of glory call Those when I thee beheld; And of my griefs the sources all When from thy sight repell’d; A thousand times the thoughts enhance The doom ’tis mine to see, Meanwhile who knows, if thou perchance Wilt e’er ev’n think of me? When in the heavens I view unfurl’d The awful signs arise, With which the Ruler of the world Poor mortals terrifies; When sounds are in the deepest caves Of horrid thunderings nigh, And of the seas the troubled waves Rage furiously on high; When by the south wind is impell’d The proud Tyrrhenian main, As if from its deep bosom swell’d To assault the starry train; When the despairing steersman turns To prayer, instead of skill, Seeing his bark the ocean spurns The plaything of its will; Amid the hoarse and troubled cries The people raise around, While shines the sword before their eyes Of death, to strike them bound; Ev’n then will I my love’s farewell In that dark hour renew, And to the winds my sighs shall tell-- Sylvia! my life, Adieu! VI. MANUEL JOSÈ QUINTANA. Connecting the present age of modern Spanish poetry with that of the past generation, by a happily protracted existence, as well as by the style and tone of his writings, the venerable subject of this memoir still survives, to close a life of active usefulness in a healthy and honoured old age.