Their timid forms to guard from harm;
I have a spell, and they know it well,
And I save them with a powerful charm.

'Thy own good steed on his friendless bed
A few hours since you left to die;
But I knelt by his side and the saddle untied,
And life returned to his glazing eye.

'To a silent home thy feet may come,
And years may follow of toilsome pain;
But yet I swear by that burning tear,
The loved shall meet on its hearth again.'

January 12, 1839.