Call the music!--half is done That my heart could count upon-- From the grave I seize a prize! Here she is, and where he lies, She or I but little care! O, what animals we are! For you!--I would forego all ease,[143] And traverse sands or travel seas. Of all they sent us from above, Nothing, nothing is like love! Happiest passion of the mind, Sent from heaven to bless mankind, Though at variance with your charms, Fate's eternal mandate stands; Hymen, come!--unite our hands, And give Lucinda to my arms! [121] This poem seems first to have appeared in the edition of 1786, where it bore the title, "Female Frailty. Written _November 1775_." Freneau made use of the opening speeches of Damon and Lucinda in his drama, _The Spy_. He omitted the poem from the 1795 edition of his works, retaining, however, the opening lyric, which he entitled "The Northern Soldier." The poem was reprinted in the edition of 1809, the text of which I have used. The poet edited the earlier version with great care, making verbal variations in almost every line, and adding lines and even stanzas. I have marked only a few of the more notable changes. [122] "And, say what you please, he will never return."--_Ed. 1786._ [123] "With anguish and sorrow my bosom did burn, And I wept, being sure he would never return."--_Ib._ [124] "With his soldiers."--_Ib._ [125] "Then why should I longer my sorrows adjourn?-- You may call me a fool if he ever return."--_Ib._ [126] Not in the earliest version. [127] "Hearts once united."--_Ed. 1786._ [128] "Never yet was reason found So distracted with love's wound As to be in sorrow drown'd."--_Ib._ [129] "Planted round with cypress trees."--_Ed. 1786._ [130] Four lines beginning with this not in original version. [131] "Shrouded all with darkness o'er."--_Ib._ [132] "'Come away! and speed thy flight, All with me is endless light.'"--_Ib._ [133] "The breast that heaves a sigh."--_Ed. 1786._ [134] "A lover gone away?"--_Ib._ [135] "Let us, like them, forget our woe, And not be kill'd with sorrow."--_Ed. 1786._ [136] "Censorious Chloe."--_Ib._ [137] "While laughing folly hears."--_Ib._ [138] "Death's arrest."--_Ed. 1786._ [139] "My lovely lass."--_Ib._ [140] "If you had once a soldier's guise, The splendid coat, the sprightly air, You might seem charming in these eyes, Nor would I quite despair."--_Ed. 1786._ [141] "His handsome shape, his manly face, His youthful step in you I trace-- All, all I wish for, but the lace."--_Ib._ [142] The following eleven lines not in the original version. [143] The 1786 version ended as follows: _Thyrsis_ For you I would forego my ease, And traverse lakes, or ravage seas, And dress in lace, or what you please. This enchanting month of May, So bright, so bloomy, and so gay, Claims our nuptials on this day. For her vernal triumphs, we Tune the harp to symphony-- Conquest has attended me.