As some benighted traveller, who strays
Through desert paths and unfrequented ways,
When no kind star bestows its radiant light,
No hut supplies a covert from the night;
Unknowing where his doubtful footsteps roam,
Far from his wishes and his native home;
Sudden some hospitable roof he spies;
Thither he bends his feet and turns his eyes;
Strains every nerve the blest retreat to gain,
And close the period of his lengthen’d pain:
Thus I by adverse fortune long was cross’d,
Long in a sea of warring passions toss’d,
Had long been mark’d the victim of despair,
Subdu’d by grief and all-consuming care;
When you, by friendship’s generous motives sway’d,
Flew to my help, and brought unhop’d-for aid;
Sav’d me just sinking on that fatal shore,
Where hope is lost and comfort is no more;
Lull’d my conflicting passions into rest,
And sweetly sooth’d the anguish of my breast.
Still may your friendship be my boasted pride,
Your virtues charm me, and your counsels guide.
(Elizabeth Scot)
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