LARA.

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Who still till now had gaz'd on him unseen;At length encountering meets the mutual gazeOf keen enquiry, and of mute amaze; 410On Lara’s glance emotion gathering grew.

As if distrusting that the stranger throw;Along the strangers aspect fix’d and stern.Flash’d more than thence the vulgar eje couldlearn.

XXII.

«’Tisbe!” the stranger cried, and those that heard,Re-echoed fast and far the whispered word.«’Tis he!” — «’Tis who P” they question farandnear.

Till louder accents rung on Tiara’s ear;

80 widely spread, few bosoms well could brookThe general marvel, or that single look; 420Rut Lara slirr d not, changed not, the surpriseThat sprung at first to his arrested eyesSeem’d now subsided, neither sunk nor rais’dGlanced his eye round , though still the stran-ger gaz'd;

And drawing nigh, exclaim d, with haughty sneer,«Tis he! —■ how came he thenceP — whatdoth he here?”

XXIII.

It were too much for Lara lo pass by