IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND.

When, from the heart where Sorrow sits,

Her dusky shadow mounts too high,

And o'er the changing aspect flits,

And clouds the brow, or fills the eye;

Heed not that gloom, which soon shall sink:

My Thoughts their dungeon know too well;

Back to my breast the Wanderers shrink,

And droop within their silent cell.