“Soon to these murky shades I came To hide from the sun’s light my shame. And still I haunt this woody dell And bathe me in that healing well, Whose waters clear have influence From sin’s foul stains the soul to cleanse; And, night and day I them augment With tears, like a true penitent, Until, due expiation made, And fit atonement fully paid, The Lord and Bridegroom me present Where in sweet strains of high consent, God’s throne before, the seraphim Shall chant the ecstatic marriage-hymn.” “Now Christ restore thee soon--” I said, And thenceforth all my dream was fled. London Engraved & Printed at _RACQUET COURT, by EDMUND EVANS_ [Illustration] Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned where they occurred in the original book, often within poems. Each poem’s name is enclosed in a decorative floral border and followed by the poem’s Roman Numeral. Many of the other illustrations are full-page with one color, and the ones at the end of many poems are tailpieces or small black-and-white drawings. The color illustrations bear the artist’s initials, “WG”, but those were not transcribed as captions. Transcriber restored two defective images and placed the restorations into the Public Domain.