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CONCLUSION.

—While thus she speaks they hear the sound
Of trampling horses' feet upon the ground,
And crackling carriage wheels, that stop before
The fair-wall'd house, and porch-beshaded door,
That, swinging slowly backward, opens wide
For Erwin, and for Linda made his bride.
For Mr. Farmund now withholds no more
His lovely Linda from her Erwin's door;
And she, brought home this happy night, has show'd
Her wife's first smiles within her new abode:

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Where he has gathered round his hall fireside,
The few that stood his friends when he was tried.
So joy be with them all, and joy betide,
Each faithful husband and true-hearted bride.