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And the fickle moon will fade, and the stars disappear,

Then, cheerless will they be, tho' they fairies are,

If I, with ht think of the stanzas, he would not deny his

daughter the pleasure of believing that he approved theiven his commendation, he sunk into a reverie, and they walked on in

silence

A faint erroneous ray

Glanc'd froe on the straining eye;

While waving woods, and villages, and strea retain

The ascending glea scene,

Uncertain if beheld

Thomson

St Aubert continued silent till he reached the chateau, where his wife

had retired to her chauor and dejection, that had lately

oppressed her, and which the exertion called forth by the arrival of

her guests had suspended, now returned with increased effect On the

following day, sy sent

for medical advice, learned, that her disorder was a fever of the same

nature as that, from which he had lately recovered She had, indeed,

taken the infection, during her attendance upon hi too weak to throw out the disease immediately, it had

lurked in her veins, and occasioned the heavy languor of which she had

complained