"Yea, truly, yet I knew not that thou wert in hiding because of it.

Therefore, so soon as thou wert of an age, set in thy strength and able to thine own support, I tore myself from thy sweet fellowship and lived alone lest, having thee, I might come nigh to happiness.

thou hast failed thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword; I warn'd thee, but in vain; for well I knew, What perils youthful ardour would pursue: That boiling blood would carry thee too far; Young as thou wert to dangers, raw to war!

"No doubt the respectability of the parent is the next thing to a good dowry, in the choice of a wife," returned the bailiff, "but one of thy years has not come hither, without having first inquired into the parentage of her thou wert about to wed?"

"I would thou wert at the confessional, poor Jacopo!"

For sinful folk, sweet Jesus, Thou lightest from the high house; Poor and low thou wert for us.

THE DAGGER I love thee dagger mine, thou sure defence I love the beauty of thy glitter cold, A brooding Georgian whetted thee for war, Forged for revenge thou wert by Khirgez bold.

Thou wert like beauty in a shroud, And all was solitude.

memory;but in reality thou art a more truly living thing than thou wert before or than aught thou hast left behind.

The little resemblance thou enjoyest to that mighty Being enables thee to do this much more than the beasts of the field: wert thou his equal, thou couldst create that principle of which thou speakest, and which, in thy blindness, thou mistakest for his master.

Thou wert among the volunteers that seized and made booty of the Swedish battery at Altenburg.

Midst the storms, which misfortune had gather'd, What an angel thou wert unto me; In that hour, when all friendship seem'd sever'd, Thou didst bloom like the ever-green tree!

Thou wert with us so long, that we feel toward thee like one of the family.