[eo] {140} ----_but this grief_ _In truth is not for thy relief._ _My state thy thought can never guess_.--[MS.] [121] The monk's sermon is omitted. It seems to have had so little effect upon the patient, that it could have no hopes from the reader. It may be sufficient to say that it was of a customary length (as may be perceived from the interruptions and uneasiness of the patient), and was delivered in the usual tone of all orthodox preachers. [ep] _Where thou, it seems, canst offer grace_.--[MS. erased.] [eq] _Where rise my native city's towers_.--[MS.] [er] _I had, and though but one--a friend!_--[MS.] [es] {141} _I have no heart to love him now_ _And 'tis but to declare my end_.--[ms] [et] _But now Remembrance murmurs o'er_ _Of all our early youth had been_-- _In pain, I now had turned aside_ _To bless his memory ere I died_, _But Heaven would mark the vain essay_, _If Guilt should for the guiltless fray_-- _I do not ask him not to blame_-- _Too gentle he to wound my name_-- _I do not ask him not to mourn_, _For such request might sound like scorn_-- _And what like Friendship's manly tear_ _So well can grace a brother's bier?_ _But bear this ring he gave of old_, _And tell him--what thou didst behold_-- _The withered frame--the ruined mind_, _The wreck that Passion leaves behind_-- _The shrivelled and discoloured leaf_ _Seared by the Autumn blast of Grief_.--[MS., First Copy.] [eu] {142} _Nay--kneel not, father, rise--despair_.--[MS.] [122] {143} "Symar," a shroud. [Cymar, or simar, is a long loose robe worn by women. It is, perhaps, the same word as the Spanish _camarra_ (Arabic _camârra_), a sheep-skin cloak. It is equivalent to "shroud" only in the primary sense of a "covering."] [ev] _Which now I view with trembling spark_.--[MS.] [ew] {144} _Then lay me with the nameless dead_.--[MS.]