Volume 1 / Part 1 / Act 2 — THOMAS K. HERVEY.
Reading edition
The Devil's Progress.
The tomb of him who would have made The world too glad and free.
He stood beside a cottage lone, And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute!
Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore!